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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 suggests that the Apollo missions were primarily about what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Technology.
(c) Science.
(d) Military strategy.

2. One feature that Sagan suggests would be easier to detect that human intelligence would be flatulence from what kind of animal?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Plankton.
(c) Cows.
(d) Krill.

3. What does Sagan claim is the key element of humanity's future?
(a) Distant worlds.
(b) Terraforming.
(c) Faster than light travel.
(d) Deep space travel.

4. How much bigger is Neptune than Earth?
(a) Forty times.
(b) Two hundred times.
(c) A hundred times.
(d) Four times.

5. What is the farthest orbital location that humans have ventured to since the last time men went to the moon?
(a) Low Earth orbit.
(b) Geosynchronous orbit.
(c) Parking orbit.
(d) High Earth orbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How likely does Sagan think it is that the records on Voyager will eventually be found?

2. How fast was Voyager I moving in 1990?

3. When were the Voyager spacecraft launched?

4. Titan has what distinction among the moons of the planet it orbits?

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

(see the answer key)

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