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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 50.
(d) 236.
2. Who is quoted in Chapter 8 as saying, "The positive things about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible."
(a) James O'Keefe.
(b) Michael Mann.
(c) Mars Watson.
(d) Thomas Mann.
3. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?
(a) Peru.
(b) Maya.
(c) Teotihuacan.
(d) Chichen Itza.
4. The Incas cultivated what in 3000 B.C., which is startling to scientists?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Trees.
(d) Wheat.
5. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Charles Piazzi Smith.
(c) James Edgar Rogers.
(d) Michael Sweet.
Short Answer Questions
1. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
2. In what year was a stone relief of the god Kukumatz found in Palenque?
3. From where does the jade come in the necklace of Tikal in Guatemala?
4. According to the manuscript at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, who ordered the Great Pyramid built?
5. The observatory at _____ is the first and oldest round building of the Mayas.
Short Essay Questions
1. What present-day examples does von Däniken cite for body preservation in Chapter 7?
2. What is the established method by which the Egyptian pyramid blocks moved the stone slabs?
3. What does von Däniken make of the majority of UFO sightings? What does he say of the minority?
4. What scientist and author does von Däniken speak of conversing with in Chapter 11? What is the consensus?
5. How is the stone relief of the Mayans described in Chapter 9?
6. What does von Däniken write of the Mayan calendar in Chapter 9?
7. What does von Däniken say of the scientific community and false abduction stories in Chapter 10?
8. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?
9. Who is Virococha?
10. What is von Däniken's argument for space travel in relation to population?
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