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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose calendar is considered by von Däniken to be the most accurate in the world?
(a) Eskimos.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Aztecs.
(d) Mayans.

2. What is the exact calculation of the terrestrial calendar in days today?
(a) 365.2111.
(b) 365.4511.
(c) 365.2155.
(d) 365.2422.

3. How many days did the Mayans understand the terrestrial year to be?
(a) 365.55214.
(b) 365.212.
(c) 354.220.
(d) 365.2420.

4. What is the name of the former keeper of the Egyptian Department of the Vatican who found a text from the time of Thutmose III?
(a) Andreas Roma.
(b) James Wilson.
(c) Alberto Tulli.
(d) Ronald Watson.

5. In Chapter 3, von Däniken writes that our historical past is pieced together through what kind of knowledge?
(a) Written.
(b) Oral.
(c) Indirect.
(d) Visual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 9?

2. The pre-Incan people believed that the gods came down to them from the constellation of what?

3. The pyramid field of _____ is 25 miles north of Mexico City.

4. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?

5. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?

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