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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. Which of the following is NOT one of the major unknowns that Sagan says he will address in this book?
(a) What humanity's future is.
(b) Whether or not there is intelligent life on nearby planets.
(c) Why humans should explore space.
(d) How humans can explore space.

2. What does Sagan suggest that cavemen were usually looking for when they wandered?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Mates.
(c) New territory.
(d) Food.

3. Who was the first to discover moons around another planet?
(a) Brahe.
(b) Kepler.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Copernicus.

4. Sagan suggest that modern religious thinking treats scientific evidence in what way?
(a) It makes no statements about the evidence.
(b) It is cautious about the evidence.
(c) It intrudes on the evidence.
(d) It blatantly disregards the evidence.

5. How old does Sagan state that "fundamentalist monotheists" believe the Earth to be?
(a) 300,000 years old.
(b) 10,000 years old.
(c) 1 million years old.
(d) 6,000 years old.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sagan say that science relates to the existence of a divine being?

3. Sagan says that which of the following is the most immediately obvious thing about the Earth?

4. The "great demotions" are changes in thinking about the status of what?

5. What criticism does Sagan make of NASA in Chapter 6, "The Triumph of Voyager"?

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