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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?
(a) Crumble.
(b) Show radiation.
(c) Distort.
(d) Disappear.

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

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

7. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?
(a) Translators.
(b) Books.
(c) Pre-emptive research.
(d) Computers.

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

9. 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. Sarah Stein.
(b) Dr. James Wasman.
(c) Dr. Donald Warsaw.
(d) Dr. Stanley Miller.

10. In Chapter 3, von Däniken writes that our historical past is pieced together through what kind of knowledge?
(a) Written.
(b) Visual.
(c) Oral.
(d) Indirect.

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

12. In the ninth tablet regarding Gilgamesh, who is the friend whose loss is mourned?
(a) Orco.
(b) Anmar.
(c) Enkidu.
(d) Amnika.

13. What is the exact calculation of the terrestrial calendar in days today?
(a) 365.4511.
(b) 365.2422.
(c) 365.2111.
(d) 365.2155.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?

3. What does von Däniken suggest destroyed Sodom?

4. What prophet speaks of being among the captives by the river of Chebar in Chapter 4?

5. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?

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