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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the tablets of King Hammurabi found?
(a) Mantuttu.
(b) Kuyunjik.
(c) Gilgamesh.
(d) Kukunota.

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

3. What biochemist does von Däniken cite in Chapter 1 as hypothesizing that the conditions for life may have developed more quickly on other planets?
(a) Dr. James Wasman.
(b) Dr. Sarah Stein.
(c) Dr. Stanley Miller.
(d) Dr. Donald Warsaw.

4. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?
(a) A car.
(b) Batteries.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A helicopter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What friend, to whom von Däniken refers as his travel companion for many years, does he thank in the Introduction?

3. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?

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

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

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