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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What moon was found to have volcanoes?
(a) Europa.
(b) Terpsichore.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Io.

2. What type of asteroids does Sagan suggest that men might be able to live inside of?
(a) Short-period asteroids.
(b) Carbon asteroids.
(c) Ice asteroids.
(d) Silicon asteroids.

3. Why does Sagan say that Mars is a more desirable target for human exploration than the moon?
(a) It is more inhabitable.
(b) It has more to teach.
(c) It has more resources.
(d) It is more like Earth.

4. What was the name of the second mission that sent probes into the atmosphere of Venus?
(a) Brahe.
(b) Hubble.
(c) Mariner.
(d) Kepler.

5. Sagan describes the "myth" that he believes should be created as centering around what?
(a) Science.
(b) Encouragement.
(c) Discovery.
(d) Tolerance.

6. Mars apparently once had what resource?
(a) Liquid water.
(b) Ice sheets.
(c) Oceans of hydrocarbons.
(d) Organic compounds.

7. What planet is the "evening star"?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Saturn.
(c) Venus.
(d) Mars.

8. It is believed that some of Saturn's rings may eventually form into what?
(a) Moons.
(b) Comets.
(c) Meteors.
(d) Asteroids.

9. How old are the terrain features generated by Venus' volcanoes?
(a) 500 million years.
(b) 4 billion years.
(c) 1 billion years.
(d) 2 billion years.

10. Sagan suggests that humans could live and thrive around what unusual type of star?
(a) Brown dwarfs.
(b) Pulsars.
(c) White dwarfs.
(d) Nova nuclei.

11. Which of the following is NOT a major resource on Mars that makes it viable for "terraforming"?
(a) Calcium deposits.
(b) Carbon dioxide.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Water.

12. At the time this book was written, how many Mars Observers had been flown successfully?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

13. Sagan suggests that ancient people did not think of the moon as which of the following?
(a) As moving.
(b) As a real object.
(c) As having an opposite side.
(d) As a place.

14. Sagan says that the moon was once understood as a symbol of which of the following?
(a) Madness.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Prosperity.
(d) The unattainable.

15. What type of Mars mission did President Reagan turn down?
(a) A manned orbital mission.
(b) A robotic colony-building mission.
(c) A one-way colonization mission.
(d) A joint mission with the Soviets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sagan worries about how societies of what type would handle the technology that could stop Earth-bound asteroids?

2. What type of missions does Sagan recommend in order to prepare to deal with Earth-bound asteroids?

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

4. When did a "disrupted" comet famously fall into Jupiter?

5. What is the acronym for the project within SETI that Sagan worked on?

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