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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Was God an Astronaut?
(b) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexpected.
(d) The Mysteries of South America and Other Oddities.

2. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

3. What does not grow on Easter Island?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Plants.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Trees.

4. Who discovered the legends of the pre-Incan beliefs of white men who traveled in the air?
(a) Dutch settlers.
(b) Italian explorers.
(c) Spanish conquistadors.
(d) French settlers.

5. Which person among the savages would likely be made "king" in the hypothetical space travel of Chapter 2?
(a) The strongest.
(b) The richest.
(c) The most intelligent.
(d) The most attractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, von Däniken writes that if the hypothetical spaceship consists solely of its payload after a journey of how long, the supplies will have been used up?

2. What book in the Bible is paralleled by the main thread of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

3. From what book of the Bible does von Däniken cite, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"?

4. How many tons of fuel would be on von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship in Chapter 2?

5. According to the prophet in Chapter 4, how many faces did the men of the heavens have?

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