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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?
(b) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(c) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(d) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.

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) 20.
(d) 200.

3. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

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

5. 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) Michael Anderson.
(c) James Walters.
(d) Willy Ley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?

3. How many tons does von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship weigh in Chapter 2?

4. In the Introduction, von Däniken asserts, "There is something _____ about our archeology!"

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

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