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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?
(a) Eskimos.
(b) Mayans.
(c) Incans.
(d) Cherokee.

4. Who is the grandfather of all science-fiction novelists, according to von Däniken in Chapter 2?
(a) Michael McClure.
(b) Jules Verne.
(c) Johann Braun.
(d) James Vinnon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how many tons is the payload in von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship?

2. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?

3. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?

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

5. The Great Idol is a block of red sandstone that weighs how many tons?

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