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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) 333.
(b) 567.
(c) 664.
(d) 879.

2. Von Däniken suggests that the planet upon which the hypothetical spaceship lands in Chapter 2 is how many years earlier in development than the Earth?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000.

3. What kind of trees does von Däniken assert grew in the Nile Delta at the time of the Great Pyramid's building?
(a) Elm.
(b) Oak.
(c) Palm.
(d) Willow.

4. What major astronomical event took place in the same period that von Däniken wrote the book?
(a) The first moon satellite.
(b) Landing on Mars.
(c) The first Earth satellite.
(d) Landing on the moon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, what does von Däniken suggest must take over the work of archeological research?

2. Who was the god-creator in pre-Incan mythology?

3. The statues of Easter Island were between 33 and ___ feet high.

4. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?

5. In Chapter 1, how many planetary systems does the scientific writer tell von Däniken are considered possible by present-day astronomers?

(see the answer key)

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