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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. Sagan helped to discover that Saturn provides what critical element to Titan?
(a) A magnetosphere.
(b) Tidal forces.
(c) Energy.
(d) Hydrogen.

2. What role does Sagan suggest that religion has played in the development of science?
(a) Religion has aided science in significant ways.
(b) Science progressed in spite of religion.
(c) Religiously-minded individuals often become scientists.
(d) Religion informs and guides scientific development.

3. What astronomical discovery did Galileo make that significantly damaged the geocentric theory?
(a) Planets move in ellipses.
(b) Stars are stationary relative to the Earth.
(c) Jupiter has its own moons.
(d) Gravity moves the planets.

4. In the analogy Sagan makes in Chapter 5 the reader is asked to imagine they are seeing Earth from what perspective?
(a) From an immense distance.
(b) From a distorted frame of reference.
(c) Very close up.
(d) For the first time.

5. Why do some suggest capturing asteroids in Earth orbit?
(a) To use them as weapons.
(b) To mine them for resources.
(c) To study them.
(d) To use them as space stations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sagan uses what term to describe a theology that requires God to intentionally mislead human scientists?

2. What material that humans have added to the environment would be easily detectable from space?

3. The Anthropic Principle is divided into two theories that are termed what?

4. How are chunks of Martian rock studied on Earth?

5. Uranus has an unusual field around it of what type?

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