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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When were the Voyager spacecraft launched?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1982.

3. What planet represents the farthest distance from Earth that the Voyager craft were intended to function at?
(a) Saturn
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Uranus.
(d) Mars.

4. What are the records on the Voyager craft engraved in?
(a) Platinum.
(b) Iron.
(c) Gold.
(d) Lead.

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

6. How does Sagan characterize NASA?
(a) As part of the military-industrial complex.
(b) As a ship without a tiller or rudder.
(c) As a faceless and dispassionate monolith.
(d) As an aging bureaucracy.

7. What major change have humans made to the environment that would be easily detectable from space?
(a) The destruction of the rainforests.
(b) The pollution of rivers and lakes.
(c) The Three-Gorges dam.
(d) Desertification.

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

9. The Voyager probes found large amounts of what element on Titan?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Iridium.
(c) Helium.
(d) Nitrogen.

10. What is Neptune's largest moon?
(a) Europa.
(b) Eurydice.
(c) Ariadne.
(d) Triton.

11. The records on the Voyager craft are most like what type of information storage method?
(a) Magnetic data storage.
(b) A phonograph.
(c) A telegraph code.
(d) Braille.

12. What was Neptune's position in the solar system as of the writing of this book?
(a) It was the last known planet.
(b) It was last.
(c) It's position was uncertain.
(d) It was third to last.

13. What form do the materials that planets emerge from take before they coalesce into proto-planets?
(a) A star.
(b) A cloud.
(c) A sphere.
(d) A disc.

14. Which planet was Voyager 2 intended to visit first?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Mars.
(c) Venus.
(d) Jupiter.

15. Who was the first to discover moons around another planet?
(a) Brahe.
(b) Kepler.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Galileo.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of the writing of this book, what is the farthest planet that humans had reached through the use of exploratory probes?

2. What did ancient people notice about planets that set them apart from the stars?

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

4. How many planets were known to ancient people?

5. What scientist is well-known for writing about the differences between species of animals?

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