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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?
(a) Pre-emptive research.
(b) Books.
(c) Computers.
(d) Translators.

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

3. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?
(a) 35,000,500.
(b) 25,000,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

4. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) Batteries.
(c) A helicopter.
(d) A car.

5. Von Däniken writes in the Introduction that the age of space travel is no longer an age of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Impossibility.
(c) Secrets.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?

2. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?

3. How many fixed stars are in our Milky Way, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?

4. Who is the grandfather of all science-fiction novelists, according to von Däniken in Chapter 2?

5. What biochemist does von Däniken cite in Chapter 1 as hypothesizing that the conditions for life may have developed more quickly on other planets?

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