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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) Computers.
(b) Translators.
(c) Pre-emptive research.
(d) Books.

2. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?
(a) Aerial photography.
(b) Telepathy.
(c) Extraterrestrial drawings.
(d) Extraterrestrial maps.

3. In the Introduction, what does von Däniken suggest must take over the work of archeological research?
(a) Astronauts.
(b) Modern laboratories.
(c) Museum curators.
(d) Novelists.

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

5. In Chapter 2, von Däniken writes that if the hypothetical spaceship consists solely of its payload after a journey of how long, the supplies will have been used up?
(a) 90 light years.
(b) 80 light years.
(c) 124 light years.
(d) 200 light years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Great Idol is a block of red sandstone that weighs how many tons?

3. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?

4. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?

5. In Chapter 1, how many planetary systems does the scientific writer tell von Däniken are considered possible by present-day astronomers?

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