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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 23.
(b) 365.
(c) 52.
(d) 100.

2. What is the name of the pyramid that is the biggest of the Mayans, belonging to the god Kukulkan?
(a) Tikal.
(b) Castillo.
(c) Chihuaha.
(d) Kukuana.

3. 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) Ronald Watson.
(b) James Wilson.
(c) Alberto Tulli.
(d) Andreas Roma.

4. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Greece.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

5. Around what time did Thutmose III live, as referred to in Chapter 6?
(a) 1200 B.C.
(b) 1550 B.C.
(c) 1300 B.C.
(d) 1500 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, von Däniken writes that our historical past is pieced together through what kind of knowledge?

2. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?

3. Whose story in Indian mythology is paralleled by the story of Enoch and Elijah of the Bible?

4. The ancient Indian epic which is more comprehensive than the Bible is called what?

5. What do the geometric features of Peru resemble to von Däniken?

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