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

2. Uranus has an unusual field around it of what type?
(a) Magnetism.
(b) Photons.
(c) Gamma rays.
(d) Radiation.

3. What role does Sagan suggest that religion has played in the development of science?
(a) Religion informs and guides scientific development.
(b) Religiously-minded individuals often become scientists.
(c) Science progressed in spite of religion.
(d) Religion has aided science in significant ways.

4. What hazard threatened the Voyager craft in Sagan's plan to take a distant picture of Earth?
(a) The Sun's rays.
(b) Space dust.
(c) Cosmic rays.
(d) Micrometeorites.

5. Titan has what distinction among the moons of the planet it orbits?
(a) It is the only spherical moon.
(b) It has the widest orbit.
(c) It is the only moon with ice water.
(d) It is the largest moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Uranus's orientation?

2. What planet represents the farthest distance from Earth that the Voyager craft were intended to function at?

3. According to Sagan, which of the following was the most notable historical tool that humans used to explore the world?

4. What does Sagan claim is the key element of humanity's future?

5. What does the Geocentric theory state?

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