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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?
(a) Electromagnetic radiation.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Hydrogen and nitrogen.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 2, how many tons is the payload in von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship?

3. How do the hypothetical space travelers travel into the air in Chapter 2?

4. How many fixed stars are in our Milky Way, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?

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

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