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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited from A Voyage to Laputa and Japan in Chapter 10?

2. In what year had two men spotted two unidentified flying objects on their radar screen at the Naval Airbase in Maryland?

3. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?

4. Who wrote Brave New World?

5. What radiation frequency does von Däniken suggest may be known throughout the universe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connections does von Däniken draw between Easter Island and Tiahuanaco?

2. What did Heyerdahl discover about the Easter Island statues?

3. Who first discovered Easter Island and when? What was their reaction?

4. What physical and mathematical characteristics of the Egyptian Pyramids does von Däniken discuss in Chapter 7?

5. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?

6. When did the Mayan evacuation take place? What is strange about this event?

7. What scientific efforts does von Däniken praise in Chapter 11?

8. What does von Däniken wonder about Egyptian mummification in Chapter 7?

9. What is the size of the statues on Easter Island?

10. What is von Däniken's argument for space travel in relation to population?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe von Däniken's interpretations from Genesis, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the prophet Ezekiel and how he determines there are extraterrestrials involved.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. What does traditional, mainstream archeology tell us? How does von Däniken's theory differ?

Essay Topic 3

What major points does von Däniken make of the Sumerian people? What mathematical advanced did they possess? How does the author's theory involve them?

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