George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Test 1
Multiple Choices
Write down the letter that best answers each question or statement.
1. In the prologue what is George doing?
a. Commander of a shuttle
c. commander of a car
b. Commander of discovery
d. commander of cosmos
2. What wakes George up from his dream?
a. Take off
c. Annie with a flash light
b. Annie with Freddy
d. explosion of shuttle
3. Eric is throwing a costume party in his house with all his scientist friends. What is George’s
costume?
a. The man from the moon
c. the man from Mars
b. The man from Earth
d. the man from mars dust
4. What does Eric ask his scientist friend to do for George?
a. Write down favorite space stories and facts c. write down personal ghost stories
b. Write down facts about Mars
d. write down personal stories about cosmos
5. Where does Annie and her family move?
a. Florida
c. Houston, Texas
b. Georgia
d. Washington DC
6. When Eric and Susan invite George to come visit them in America, who is the person that is
responsible for convincing his parents and paying for his airfare?
a. Freddy
c. Eric and Susan
b. Emmett
d. Gran
7. During the flight to America, George takes out the book Eric made for him titled “The User’s
Guide to the Universe” he begins to ready about voyages across space. In the first story titled
“The Voyage Back through Time” what is the speed of light?
a. 180,000 miles per second
c. 186,000 miles per second
b. 181,000 miles per second
d. 188,888 miles per second
8. In “The User’s Guide to the Universe” the passage about travel through space in the second story
about traveling in space titled “The Voyage through Space” Einstein’s general theory of relativity
(1915) states that we could possibly use more exotic possibilities to travel through space. What
two things did he mentioned?
a. Worms and holes
c. wormholes and space wraps effect
b. Black holes and stars
d. wormholes and black holes
9. What was so important that Annie wanted to tell George in person?
a. About Emmett the genius
c. Wormhole travels
b. Cosmo is working
d. Message from Aliens
10. Who is Emmett?
a. A genius boy
c. a robot
b. A neighbor
d. a cat
11. According to additional information from the book, the first living Earth-born creature to make it
to out of space was a ____________________?
a. Monkey named Leica
c. Cat named Laika
b. Dog named Laika
d. Dog named Freddy
12. What year was the first U.S. manned space flight?
a. 1980
c. 1961
b. 1971
d. 1962
13. In 1981, the first U.S. space shuttle launch occurred in Florida. What was the name of the space
shuttle?
a. Discovery
c. Columbus
b. Challenger
d. Columbia
14. There is a picture of a footprint on the surface of the moon in the book. Who does the footprint
belong to?
a. Laika the Russian dog
c. Neil Armstrong
b. James B. Irwin
d. Buzz Aldrin
15. In the book the part where Annie and Eric are watching the mars rover HOMER lose signal and
then come back to land on the surface of the planet, Eric mentions to Annie that that was very
strange. What is this foreshadowing later on in the book?
a. That someone or something interfered with Homer’s landing
b. That it malfunction and it’s systems will be screwed up for the remainder of the trip
c. Communication system failed
d. NASA’s connection will be faulty
Read the following passages and answer the questions.
After reading the passage titled “ROBOTIC SPACE TRAVEL” answers the questions below:
16. . What is a space probe?
a. Robotic Space craft
c. Robotic airplane drone
b. Robotic space suit
d. Robotic radios
17. Human beings have only traveled as far as the moon. How many miles is it from Earth to the
moon?
a. 234,444 miles
c. 234,000 miles
b. 233,333 miles
d. 230,000 miles
18. The first rover on the moon was a Russian probe named Luna 17. What year did it land on the
moon?
a. 1975
c. 1970
b. 1971
d. 1972
19. NASA sent several probes into space to take pictures and study the planets. Cassini was not the
first to visit Saturn but it brought back very important information. How long did it take Cassini
to travel to Saturn and what year did it reach Saturn?
a. 8 years; 2004
c. 7 years;2004
b. 10 years; 2005
d. 7 years; 2005
20. What was the stardust mission?
a. A probe caught particles from planet Mars
b. A probe caught particles from the tail of a comet
c. A probe caught particles from Saturn
d. a probe caught particles from Earth’s
atmosphere
21. What happens in chapter 5 that ties to the prologue?
a. George is dreaming about piloting the space shuttle
b. Annie is dreaming about space
c. Emmett wakes George up with a flash light because of an emergency
d. George opens Cosmo up and travels to space by himself
22. Annie finishes telling George what happened to Homer. Who is Homer?
a. Emmett genius friend
c. Alien
b. Annie’s pet
d. Space robot in Mars
23. What is HOMER’s strange behavior?
a. Throwing mud in the air and taking pictures of his tires
b. Taking mud samples and analysis them and sending data back
c. Sending signals with important information gathered from the dirt samples
d. Sending important information about life on Mars.
24. After reading GETTING IN TOUCH WITH ALIENS in the User’s Guide To the Universe, what
did scientist discovered about interstellar conversations?
a. That it would be impossible without highly advance equipment that didn’t not exist yet
b. That it would be really easy because they could use radio signals to communicate through
space
c. That is would never happen unless aliens or extra-terrestrials made the first contact
d. That it would be impossible because of Earth’s atmosphere
25. After reading GETTING IN TOUCH WITH ALIENS in the User’s Guide to the Universe, what
is the alien eavesdropping experiment called?
a. A L F
c. E. T. phone home
b. SETI
d. M W Galaxy project
26. What important event occurs in chapter 6 that is very significant to the story line?
a. Emmett has to go back to his home
c. The aliens make actual contact
b. Emmett gets Cosmo to work
d. George’s parents find out and bring him home
27. What is happening to Cosmo once he is turned on?
a. Nothing, he is acting better than ever
c. He reset and is going through baby,
teenager and mature stages
b. He opens portals randomly with no control d. Emmett breaks Cosmo again
28. What number is the base of the binary code?
a. 10
c. 3
b. 2
d. 4
29. In the passage titled MANNED SPACEFLIGHT what is Neil Armstrong’s radio message when
he lands on the moon?
a. The Tiger has Roared
c. Houston we have a problem
b. The Eagle has Landed
d. Columbia has Landed
30. What is the name of the first manned space craft launched by the Soviet Union in 1961?
a. Apollo
c. Lakia
b. Vostok
d. Yuri
31. What country in 1986 launched the first space station into orbit?
a. USA
c. China
b. Russia
d. Europe
32. In 1998 what was built in space while it orbited the planet Earth?
a. Vostok space craft
c. International Space Station
b. Apollo space craft station
d. Progress Station
33. How do the children sneak out of Eric’s presence when they are in the Global Space Agency?
a. When Eric receives an urgent page and they stay with a lady astronaut during the launch
b. When Eric receives an urgent page because HOMER found life on mars
c. When Eric receives an urgent page that HOMER has broken down and is useless
d. When Eric receives an urgent page and leaves during the launch of the shuttle to buy lunch
34. Why is the CLEAN ROOM named the CLEAN ROOM?
a. Because all the equipment in the room will go into space and cannot contain Earth evidence
b. Because all the equipment in the room will go to the space station and needs to be polished
c. Because all the equipment in the room will go to space in pieces and needs to be assembled
d. Because all the equipment in the room will never see space because it’s dirty and needs
cleaning
35. How can someone hear sound waves in space?
a. If the sound is in a radio signal form c. If its traveling the speed of light
b. If it’s in alien ware speak
d. No sound will EVER travel through space
Completion
After reading the passages in gray and the pages with pictures, fill in the blanks of the sentences below:
*Alexei Leonov
* Dog *International Space Station *Yuri Gagarin * Apollo * Buzz Aldrin
* Russia
* USA *Columbia
* Skylab
*Space * China
* Gravity
36. The first living Earth-born creature in orbit was a _______________ named Laika
37. _________________ was the first living human to be launched into space by the Soviet Union in
April 1961.
38. The ______________ 15 mission placed astronaut James B. Irwin on the moon with a lunar rover
in July 1971.
39. Apollo II took _____________________ to the moon.
40. The American’s created a space station in 1973 that orbited Earth for 8 months called
___________.
41. The first U.S. Shuttle launched in 1981 was named __________________.
42. In 2010 the U.S. space shuttles will go out of service and no longer fly into space. Supplies will
reach the space station from __________________ soyuz and progress spacecraft.
43. ISS stands for ________________ ________________ ______________.
44. The first handshake in space took place between astronauts from Soviet Union and ________ in
1975.
45. The first man to conduct a space-walk was Russian cosmonaut, ___________________ in 1965