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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, To The Sky!, Chapter 22, Tiptoeing Through the Milky Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sagan think it is most likely that life will be found on Mars?
(a) In the ice at the poles.
(b) On the surface.
(c) In salt caverns.
(d) In the subsurface rock.

2. Sagan expects both Voyager spacecrafts to continue to broadcast data through what year?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2030.

3. What scientist is credited with making the first discoveries that caused problems for the geocentric theory?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Kelper.

4. What type of waves could be analyzed to demonstrate that there is intelligent life on Earth?
(a) Cosmic waves.
(b) Radio waves.
(c) Ultraviolet waves.
(d) Microwaves.

5. Sagan compares the human need for religion to what?
(a) An injured person's need for aid.
(b) A blind person's need for a cane.
(c) A man's need for water.
(d) An infant's need for a parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that early planets may have been made incapable of bearing life?

2. Sagan uses what term to describe a theology that requires God to intentionally mislead human scientists?

3. What form do the materials that planets emerge from take before they coalesce into proto-planets?

4. The records on the Voyager craft are most like what type of information storage method?

5. What unusual source of energy do the Voyager spacecraft take advantage of?

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