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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?
(a) Professor Janeson.
(b) Professor Beckett.
(c) Professor Ackeret.
(d) Professor Brahm.

3. How many tons does von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship weigh in Chapter 2?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 230,000.

4. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 86 hours.
(c) 86 minutes.
(d) 80 hours.

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

6. Who was expecting the angels at the gate in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) Nathaniel.
(b) Herod.
(c) Moses.
(d) Lot.

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

8. How many tons of fuel would be on von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship in Chapter 2?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 99,000.
(c) 99,800.
(d) 125,000.

9. How does time on the hypothetical spaceship of Chapter 2 pass in relation to time on earth?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Faster.
(c) More slowly.
(d) Equally.

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

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

12. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(b) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?
(c) Was God an Astronaut?
(d) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?

13. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1965.

14. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?
(a) James Walters.
(b) Willy Ley.
(c) Jan Leys.
(d) Michael Anderson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?

2. The ancient Indian epic which is more comprehensive than the Bible is over how many years old?

3. What book in the Bible is paralleled by the main thread of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

4. How do the hypothetical space travelers travel into the air in Chapter 2?

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

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