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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major astronomical event took place in the same period that von Däniken wrote the book?
(a) The first Earth satellite.
(b) The first moon satellite.
(c) Landing on Mars.
(d) Landing on the moon.

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. 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) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 200.
(d) 150.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of rocket can reach a velocity close to the speed of light, according to von Däniken?

2. What is the title of Chapter 2?

3. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?

4. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?

5. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?

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