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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 and Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, what does von Däniken suggest must take over the work of archeological research?
(a) Museum curators.
(b) Novelists.
(c) Astronauts.
(d) Modern laboratories.

2. The pre-Incan people believed that the gods came down to them from the constellation of what?
(a) Pleiades.
(b) Ares.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Orestes.

3. What Dutch astrophysicist determined that CTA 102 must be about 10 billion light years from Earth?
(a) Leslie Golden.
(b) Arnold Sneider.
(c) Jan Leys.
(d) Maarten Schmidt.

4. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

5. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?
(a) Crumble.
(b) Show radiation.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Distort.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Easter Island is located how many miles off the coast of Chile?

3. The observatory at _____ is the first and oldest round building of the Mayas.

4. The height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops multiplied by a thousand million miles corresponds approximately to the distance of the earth to what?

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

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