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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If the Egyptians had a daily piece rate of 10 blocks in a stack, they would have built the Great Pyramid in how many years?
(a) 567.
(b) 879.
(c) 333.
(d) 664.

2. How many fixed stars are in our Milky Way, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 30 billion.
(b) 200 billion.
(c) 100 billion.
(d) 20 billion.

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

4. In Chapter 5, to what does von Däniken attribute a door speaking like a human person?
(a) A foghorn.
(b) A stereo.
(c) A loudspeaker.
(d) A microphone.

5. Von Däniken asserts that Easter Island could not have provided food for more than how many inhabitants?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?

2. Von Däniken asserts that the stone relief representing the god Kukumatz is on a what?

3. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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