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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?
(a) Uruk.
(b) Imra.
(c) Namuk.
(d) Runka.

2. What does not grow on Easter Island?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Plants.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Trees.

3. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?
(a) James Edgar Rogers.
(b) Charles Piazzi Smith.
(c) Michael Sweet.
(d) Jonathan Swift.

4. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 20,000,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

5. What do the natives of Easter Island call their land, even today?
(a) Land of the Kings.
(b) Land of the Bird Men.
(c) Land of the Insects.
(d) Land of the Flyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of rocket can reach a velocity close to the speed of light, according to von Däniken?

2. What is the name of the former keeper of the Egyptian Department of the Vatican who found a text from the time of Thutmose III?

3. From where in the Bible does von Däniken cite the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

4. The Sumerians refer to a god statue of their highest god, which is named what?

5. The Tibetan books of Tantyua and what also mention prehistoric flying machines?

(see the answer key)

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