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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Gift of Apollo, Chapter 14, Exploring Other Worlds and Protecting This One.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What visual resolution would be required to determine the existence of intelligent life on Earth?
(a) 1 meter.
(b) 1,000 meters.
(c) 100 meters.
(d) 10 cm.

3. What does Sagan say is an easy way to visually identify planets?
(a) The color of their atmospheres.
(b) Their size.
(c) Their brightness.
(d) Their movements.

4. In Chapter 5 Sagan asks the reader to imagine that they are which of the following?
(a) An ancient person.
(b) An alien.
(c) An ant.
(d) A time traveler.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that early planets may have been made incapable of bearing life?
(a) Being heavily bombarded by meteors.
(b) Falling into the sun.
(c) Being thrown into outer space.
(d) Being pushed into a distant orbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of organic molecules arrived on Earth from what source?

2. Who was the first to discover moons around another planet?

3. Sagan suggests that the Apollo missions were primarily about what?

4. Sagan suggests that throughout history, many have claimed that our species is what?

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

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