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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 150.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

3. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?
(a) The Eskimos.
(b) The Incas.
(c) The Mayans.
(d) The Enkidu.

4. How many tons of fuel would be on von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship in Chapter 2?
(a) 125,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 99,800.
(d) 99,000.

5. How many tons does von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship weigh in Chapter 2?
(a) 230,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?

3. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?

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

5. In Chapter 1, how many planetary systems does the scientific writer tell von Däniken are considered possible by present-day astronomers?

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