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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?
(b) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(c) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(d) The Search for Direct Communication.

2. One Indian story tells of Aryuna speaking of a weapon which would kill any warrior with what on his body?
(a) Stone.
(b) Wood.
(c) Water.
(d) Metal.

3. How many days is the Venusian year in Mayan understandings?
(a) 265.
(b) 150.
(c) 584.
(d) 365.

4. How many days did the Mayans understand the terrestrial year to be?
(a) 354.220.
(b) 365.212.
(c) 365.55214.
(d) 365.2420.

5. What woman descended from the "spaceship" depicted in the Gate of the Sun?
(a) Oryana.
(b) Kukumanta.
(c) Mroni.
(d) Kytomata.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?

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

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

5. Whose story in Indian mythology is paralleled by the story of Enoch and Elijah of the Bible?

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