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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?
(a) Show radiation.
(b) Distort.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Crumble.

2. 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) Carbon dioxide.
(c) Hydrogen and nitrogen.
(d) Mercury.

3. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?
(a) Translators.
(b) Computers.
(c) Books.
(d) Pre-emptive research.

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

5. The Great Idol is a block of red sandstone that weighs how many tons?
(a) 60.
(b) 100.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Theory of Satellites in 1927?

2. What major astronomical event took place in the same period that von Däniken wrote the book?

3. What astronomer estimates that there are some 10 to the 20th-power stars within the range of our telescopes?

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

5. In Chapter 3, von Däniken writes that our historical past is pieced together through what kind of knowledge?

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