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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the hypothetical space travelers travel into the air in Chapter 2?
(a) Balloons.
(b) Hovercraft.
(c) Rocket belts.
(d) Air rockets.

2. Some argue that the maps of Piri Reis depict America and what before exploration?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Antarctica.
(d) China.

3. 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) Willy Ley.
(d) James Walters.

4. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?
(a) Spain.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Greece.
(d) England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?

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

3. What biologist recreated atmospheric conditions similar to those on Jupiter and bred bacteria and mites in the atmosphere?

4. What do the geometric features of Peru resemble to von Däniken?

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

(see the answer key)

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