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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice 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."
(a) 150.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 50.

2. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?
(a) 80 hours.
(b) 86 hours.
(c) 86 minutes.
(d) 8 days.

3. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(b) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(c) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(d) Fiery Chariots from the Heavens.

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

5. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which person among the savages would likely be made "king" in the hypothetical space travel of Chapter 2?

3. What do the savages believe the astronauts to be in Chapter 2?

4. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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