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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What astronomer estimates that there are some 10 to the 20th-power stars within the range of our telescopes?
(a) Harlow Shapley.
(b) Bruno Michela.
(c) Jan Leys.
(d) Hal Holbrook.

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

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

5. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?

2. Who is the grandfather of all science-fiction novelists, according to von Däniken in Chapter 2?

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

4. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?

5. Von Däniken suggests that the planet upon which the hypothetical spaceship lands in Chapter 2 is how many years earlier in development than the Earth?

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