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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What astronomer estimates that there are some 10 to the 20th-power stars within the range of our telescopes?
(a) Bruno Michela.
(b) Harlow Shapley.
(c) Hal Holbrook.
(d) Jan Leys.

4. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?
(a) Professor Janeson.
(b) Professor Brahm.
(c) Professor Beckett.
(d) Professor Ackeret.

5. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?
(a) Show radiation.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Distort.
(d) Crumble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?

2. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?

3. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."

4. Where is the Great Idol?

5. What woman descended from the "spaceship" depicted in the Gate of the Sun?

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