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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What prophet speaks of being among the captives by the river of Chebar in Chapter 4?
(a) Moses.
(b) Nathaniel.
(c) Noah.
(d) Ezekiel.

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

4. The city of Tiahuanaco lies at a height of more than how many feet?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 1,000.

5. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?
(a) Batteries.
(b) A helicopter.
(c) A car.
(d) A flashlight.

6. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(b) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(c) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(d) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?

7. How many days is the Venusian year in Mayan understandings?
(a) 150.
(b) 265.
(c) 365.
(d) 584.

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

9. Who is the grandfather of all science-fiction novelists, according to von Däniken in Chapter 2?
(a) Jules Verne.
(b) James Vinnon.
(c) Michael McClure.
(d) Johann Braun.

10. Some argue that the maps of Piri Reis depict America and what before exploration?
(a) Australia.
(b) Antarctica.
(c) China.
(d) Africa.

11. What geometrical figures does von Däniken refer to in Peru?
(a) Topkapi lines.
(b) Sacsahuaman.
(c) Nazca lines.
(d) Quacksysla.

12. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Search for Direct Communication.
(b) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(d) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?

13. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Eskimos.
(c) The Mayans.
(d) The Enkidu.

14. What figure from the Bible does von Däniken cite from Exodus 15:10 in Chapter 4?
(a) Noah.
(b) David.
(c) Moses.
(d) Ezekiel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?

2. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?

3. The Tibetan books of Tantyua and what also mention prehistoric flying machines?

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

5. In what language were the tablets of King Hammurabi written?

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