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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, how many light years might the larger stellar system stretch, according to von Däniken?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 25,000,000.
(d) 1,500,000.

3. What biochemist does von Däniken cite in Chapter 1 as hypothesizing that the conditions for life may have developed more quickly on other planets?
(a) Dr. James Wasman.
(b) Dr. Sarah Stein.
(c) Dr. Stanley Miller.
(d) Dr. Donald Warsaw.

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

5. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) Greece.

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

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

8. What do the geometric features of Peru resemble to von Däniken?
(a) An ancient runway.
(b) A symbol to spaceships.
(c) A symbol of a god.
(d) An extraterrestrial language.

9. How do the hypothetical space travelers travel into the air in Chapter 2?
(a) Rocket belts.
(b) Balloons.
(c) Air rockets.
(d) Hovercraft.

10. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 150.
(d) 50.

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

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

13. Where was the Sumerian library of 60,000 clay tablets discovered?
(a) Machu Pichu.
(b) Pleides.
(c) Nippur.
(d) Greece.

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

15. What astronomer estimates that there are some 10 to the 20th-power stars within the range of our telescopes?
(a) Hal Holbrook.
(b) Harlow Shapley.
(c) Bruno Michela.
(d) Jan Leys.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the ninth tablet regarding Gilgamesh, who is the friend whose loss is mourned?

2. Who was expecting the angels at the gate in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

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

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

5. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?

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