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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, An American Ship at the Frontiers of the Solar System, Chapter 10, Sacred Black.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sagan say that philosophy and religion should provide?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Guidance.

2. What does Neptune's moon have less of compared to Titan?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Iron.
(c) Ice.
(d) Potassium.

3. How does Sagan describe his reaction to the difficulties in detecting human life and intelligence on Earth from space?
(a) Disappointing.
(b) Sobering.
(c) Aggravating.
(d) Unsurprising.

4. Sagan believes that Titan hosts oceans made of what compound?
(a) Water.
(b) Saturated salts.
(c) Methane.
(d) Hydrocarbons.

5. As of 1990, how many planets did the Voyager craft explore?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sagan think that life will most likely be eventually found?

2. How old does Sagan state that "fundamentalist monotheists" believe the Earth to be?

3. What role does Sagan suggest that religion has played in the development of science?

4. In Chapter 5 Sagan asks the reader to imagine that they are which of the following?

5. Sagan describes humans as which of the following, with respect to their arrival in the universe?

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