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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops multiplied by a thousand million miles corresponds approximately to the distance of the earth to what?
(a) The sun.
(b) Venus.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) The moon.

2. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?
(a) James Walters.
(b) Jan Leys.
(c) Michael Anderson.
(d) Willy Ley.

3. What is the Noah of the Sumerians called?
(a) Noah.
(b) Marduk.
(c) Gilgamesh.
(d) Ziusudra.

4. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?
(a) Charles Piazzi Smith.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Michael Sweet.
(d) James Edgar Rogers.

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) 200 light years.
(b) 90 light years.
(c) 80 light years.
(d) 124 light years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?

2. From where does the jade come in the necklace of Tikal in Guatemala?

3. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which weigh nearly how many tons?

4. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?

5. What was the population of cows in India in 1966?

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