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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 23.
(b) 100.
(c) 52.
(d) 365.

2. The Incas cultivated what in 3000 B.C., which is startling to scientists?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Trees.

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

4. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?
(a) Extraterrestrial drawings.
(b) Telepathy.
(c) Aerial photography.
(d) Extraterrestrial maps.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."

4. What woman descended from the "spaceship" depicted in the Gate of the Sun?

5. What does not grow on Easter Island?

(see the answer key)

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