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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, von Däniken writes that if the hypothetical spaceship consists solely of its payload after a journey of how long, the supplies will have been used up?
(a) 200 light years.
(b) 90 light years.
(c) 124 light years.
(d) 80 light years.

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

4. Where were the tablets of King Hammurabi found?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) Mantuttu.
(c) Kukunota.
(d) Kuyunjik.

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

6. In Chapter 5, von Däniken states as an established fact that the original version of the Epic of Gilgamesh stems from whom?
(a) The Egyptians.
(b) The Sumerians.
(c) The Incas.
(d) The Aztecs.

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

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

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

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

11. How many days did the Mayans understand the terrestrial year to be?
(a) 365.55214.
(b) 365.2420.
(c) 354.220.
(d) 365.212.

12. In Chapter 1, von Däniken suggests that our solar system may be only a tiny part of a considerably larger stellar system containing how many galaxies?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 40.
(c) 200.
(d) 20.

13. What major astronomical event took place in the same period that von Däniken wrote the book?
(a) Landing on the moon.
(b) Landing on Mars.
(c) The first moon satellite.
(d) The first Earth satellite.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Von Däniken writes in the Introduction that the age of space travel is no longer an age of what?

3. The Sumerians refer to a god statue of their highest god, which is named what?

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

5. From where in the Bible does von Däniken cite the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

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