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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What biologist recreated atmospheric conditions similar to those on Jupiter and bred bacteria and mites in the atmosphere?
(a) Dr. Daniel Kimgrow.
(b) Dr. Stephen Wright.
(c) Dr. Gerald Kimble.
(d) Dr. Sanford Siegel.

2. What friend, to whom von Däniken refers as his travel companion for many years, does he thank in the Introduction?
(a) Bert Slattery.
(b) Hans Neuner.
(c) Louis Emrich.
(d) Dr. Stehlin.

3. Who published Theory of Satellites in 1927?
(a) Heinberg.
(b) Zinfeld.
(c) Hoerbiger.
(d) Markman.

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

5. What book in the Bible is paralleled by the main thread of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Moses.
(c) Exodus.
(d) Revelations.

6. 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) Jan Leys.
(c) Willy Ley.
(d) Michael Anderson.

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

8. What does von Däniken suggest destroyed Sodom?
(a) An H-bomb.
(b) An angel.
(c) God.
(d) A spaceship.

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

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

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

12. In Chapter 5, to what does von Däniken attribute a door speaking like a human person?
(a) A foghorn.
(b) A loudspeaker.
(c) A microphone.
(d) A stereo.

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

14. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 20,000,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?

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

3. Who is the grandfather of all science-fiction novelists, according to von Däniken in Chapter 2?

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

5. In Chapter 1, how many light years might the larger stellar system stretch, according to von Däniken?

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