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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1943.

2. Who was the god-creator in pre-Incan mythology?
(a) Oxynoo.
(b) Gilgamesh.
(c) Kanaah.
(d) Viracocha.

3. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 20,000,000.

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

5. What book in the Bible is paralleled by the main thread of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
(a) Moses.
(b) Revelations.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Exodus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was a stone relief of the god Kukumatz found in Palenque?

2. In what language were the tablets of King Hammurabi written?

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 8 as saying, "The positive things about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible."

4. Easter Island is located how many miles off the coast of Chile?

5. Von Däniken suggests that the planet upon which the hypothetical spaceship lands in Chapter 2 is how many years earlier in development than the Earth?

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