1: What color is the Moon when we see it in the sky?
a) Light purple
b) Lime green
c) White or grayish-white

3: Which statement is true?
a) The Moon is a dwarf planet.
b) The Moon is an asteroid.
c) The Moon orbits Earth.

5: Which statement is true?
a) The Moon is bigger than Earth.
b) Earth is bigger than the Moon.
c) Earth and the Moon are about the same size.

7: Which of these statements is true?
a) The Moon creates its own light.
b) The Moon is lit by light from the Sun.
c) The Moon is lit by lightning bugs on its surface.

9: What color is the sky on the Moon during the day?
a) Blue
b) Red
c) Black

2: What is the Moon’s nearest neighbor in space?
a) Earth
b) Venus
c) The Sun

4: How wide is the Moon across?
a) Just under 10 miles (16 km)
b) 2,159 miles (3,475 km)
c) About 1,000 miles (1,600 km)

6: How long does it take the Moon to orbit Earth once?
a) Just over 27 days
b) 365 days
c) Just over 1 hour

8: What is the surface of the Moon like?
a) Covered with rocks and thick, gray dust
b) Crisscrossed with rivers
c) Covered with large oceans

10: What kind of atmosphere does the Moon have?
a) An atmosphere made of oxygen
b) An atmosphere made of poisonous gases
c) The Moon has no atmosphere.

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11: What is at the center of the Moon?
a) A ball of iron
b) Gas
c) A ball of wood

13: How large is the Moon’s biggest crater?
a) Large enough to cover all of South America
b) Large enough to cover Connecticut
c) Large enough to cover half of the United States

15: On what date did the first people walk on the Moon?
a) July 20, 1969
b) July 20, 1989
c) January 2, 1969

17: Which statement is false?
a) Astronauts on the Moon have collected rock samples.
b) Astronauts have found items left by alien visitors on the Moon.
c) Astronauts have photographed and filmed the Moon’s surface.

19: What did the LCROSS space probe discover on the Moon?
a) Tiny pieces of ice
b) Tiny pieces of cheese
c) Signs that plants once grew on the Moon

14: Where does the Moon get its name?
a) From the name of the Roman god of the sky
b) From a very old word for “month”
c) From a very old word for “neighbor”

16: Who were the first two astronauts to walk on the Moon?
a) Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong
b) Buzz Lightyear and Neil Armstrong
c) Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

18: How many astronauts have walked on the Moon?
a) 118
b) 1
c) 12

20: How many moons are there in the solar system?
a) 25 moons
b) Earth’s Moon is the only moon in the solar system.
c) At least 170 moons

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12: How were the Moon’s craters formed?
a) By spacecraft crashing into the Moon
b) By asteroids and comets hitting the Moon’s surface
c) By eruptions of water from beneath the Moon’s surface