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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1920.

3. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 50.
(b) 300.
(c) 100.
(d) 236.

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

5. What friend, to whom von Däniken refers as his travel companion for many years, does he thank in the Introduction?
(a) Hans Neuner.
(b) Bert Slattery.
(c) Dr. Stehlin.
(d) Louis Emrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?

2. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?

3. What do archeologists estimate the population of Egypt to have been during the building of the Great Pyramid?

4. 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?

5. According to the prophet in Chapter 4, how many faces did the men of the heavens have?

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