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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Among the Moons of Saturn, Chapter 8, The First New Planet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scientist is well-known for writing about the differences between species of animals?
(a) Maxwell.
(b) Dawkins.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Hawking.

2. How does Sagan characterize NASA?
(a) As part of the military-industrial complex.
(b) As an aging bureaucracy.
(c) As a faceless and dispassionate monolith.
(d) As a ship without a tiller or rudder.

3. When were the Voyager spacecraft launched?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1982.

4. What is the constituent particle of light?
(a) The neutron.
(b) The electron.
(c) The neutrino.
(d) The photon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which planet was Voyager 2 intended to visit first?

2. Sagan expects both Voyager spacecrafts to continue to broadcast data through what year?

3. Sagan suggests that the image of the "pale blue dot" teaches the need for what?

4. What is the major difference between space exploration and human exploration in the past?

5. What scientist is credited with making the first discoveries that caused problems for the geocentric theory?

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