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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the exact calculation of the terrestrial calendar in days today?
(a) 365.2155.
(b) 365.4511.
(c) 365.2111.
(d) 365.2422.

2. In Chapter 1, von Däniken suggests that our solar system may be only a tiny part of a considerably larger stellar system containing how many galaxies?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 40.
(c) 200.
(d) 20.

3. The construction of the atomic bomb took how many years?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

4. The pyramid of Cholula is how many miles south of the Mexican capital?
(a) 60.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

5. How many rats were living in India in 1966?
(a) 1.6 billion.
(b) 20 billion.
(c) 2.5 billion.
(d) 3 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easter Island is located how many miles off the coast of Chile?

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

3. When did the Mayans abandon their cities and temples?

4. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?

5. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?

(see the answer key)

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