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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the mountainous region of Kohistan in Asia, a cave drawing reproduces the exact position of the stars as they were how many years ago?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

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

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

5. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?
(a) G. Kimple.
(b) M. Michelin.
(c) P. Allan.
(d) M. Rosleigh.

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

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

8. According to the prophet in Chapter 4, how many faces did the men of the heavens have?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

9. In Chapter 6, what Mayan legend tells of the gods being able to recognize everything?
(a) Plota Minh.
(b) Mayal Vor.
(c) Ahnan Vah.
(d) Popol Vuh.

10. From where in the Bible does von Däniken cite the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) Genesis 4:1.
(b) Genesis 19:1-28.
(c) Genesis 3:12-21.
(d) Genesis 6:4.

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

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

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

14. Which person among the savages would likely be made "king" in the hypothetical space travel of Chapter 2?
(a) The strongest.
(b) The most attractive.
(c) The most intelligent.
(d) The richest.

15. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?
(a) A helicopter.
(b) Batteries.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figure from the Bible does von Däniken cite from Exodus 15:10 in Chapter 4?

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?

3. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?

4. Where was the Sumerian library of 60,000 clay tablets discovered?

5. What is the title of Chapter 5?

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