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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?
(a) 18th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 17th.

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

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

4. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?
(a) 40.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

5. The Great Idol is a block of red sandstone that weighs how many tons?
(a) 100.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Sumerian library of 60,000 clay tablets discovered?

2. Around what time did Thutmose III live, as referred to in Chapter 6?

3. What archeologist's investigations of Easter Island produced three clearly distinctive periods?

4. In Chapter 5, von Däniken states as an established fact that the original version of the Epic of Gilgamesh stems from whom?

5. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?

(see the answer key)

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