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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Routine Interplanetary Violence, Chapter 18, The Marsh of Camarina.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What planet represents the farthest distance from Earth that the Voyager craft were intended to function at?
(a) Uranus.
(b) Mars.
(c) Saturn
(d) Jupiter.

2. What other medium was used to express the desire to wander, according to Sagan, as human civilization developed?
(a) Religion.
(b) Technology.
(c) Law.
(d) Ethics.

3. Sagan says that which of the following is the most immediately obvious thing about the Earth?
(a) Its meteorological features.
(b) Its geological features.
(c) The existence of life.
(d) The existence of intelligent life.

4. What was the name of the mission that sent the first probes to Venus?
(a) Oracle.
(b) Venera.
(c) Sojourner.
(d) Lyka.

5. What happens to the number of asteroids and comets in the solar system as time goes on?
(a) Its change is unknown.
(b) It diminishes.
(c) It remains about the same.
(d) It increases.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what century was the geocentric theory conclusively disproved?

2. What was the state of the knowledge and belief about life on other planets at the time the book was written?

3. Where does Neptune fall in the mission plan for the Voyager probes?

4. How does Sagan describe his reaction to the difficulties in detecting human life and intelligence on Earth from space?

5. Which of the following does Sagan NOT cite as evidence for the age of the universe?

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