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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What woman descended from the "spaceship" depicted in the Gate of the Sun?
(a) Mroni.
(b) Kukumanta.
(c) Oryana.
(d) Kytomata.

2. What is the Noah of the Sumerians called?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) Noah.
(c) Marduk.
(d) Ziusudra.

3. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?
(a) 35,000,500.
(b) 25,000,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 25,000.

4. The Mayans left behind them calculations to last how many years?
(a) 45,000,000.
(b) 45,000,000.
(c) 65,000,000.
(d) 64,000,000.

5. According to the prophet in Chapter 4, how many faces did the men of the heavens have?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

6. From what Biblical verse does von Däniken cite the "giants" he refers to in Chapter 4?
(a) Genesis19:1-28.
(b) Genesis 6:4.
(c) Genesis 1:3.
(d) Genesis 6:1.

7. Von Däniken writes in the Introduction that the age of space travel is no longer an age of what?
(a) Lies.
(b) Impossibility.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Secrets.

8. What kind of rocket can reach a velocity close to the speed of light, according to von Däniken?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Nitrogen.
(c) Photon.
(d) Radium.

9. What is the name of the former keeper of the Egyptian Department of the Vatican who found a text from the time of Thutmose III?
(a) James Wilson.
(b) Andreas Roma.
(c) Ronald Watson.
(d) Alberto Tulli.

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

11. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Carbon.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Hydrogen.

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

13. 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) 9,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 5,000.

14. Where is the Great Idol?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Sumeria.
(c) Sacsahumain.
(d) Tiahuanaco.

15. In what language were the tablets of King Hammurabi written?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Sumerian.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Akkadian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which person among the savages would likely be made "king" in the hypothetical space travel of Chapter 2?

2. What do the savages believe the astronauts to be in Chapter 2?

3. Who published Theory of Satellites in 1927?

4. In Chapter 6, what Mayan legend tells of the gods being able to recognize everything?

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

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