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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Around what time did Thutmose III live, as referred to in Chapter 6?
(a) 1550 B.C.
(b) 1500 B.C.
(c) 1300 B.C.
(d) 1200 B.C.

3. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?
(a) Eskimos.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Incans.
(d) Mayans.

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

5. The Sumerians refer to a god statue of their highest god, which is named what?
(a) Isis.
(b) Mamouk.
(c) Marduk.
(d) Yhrsisi.

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

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

8. 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) 80 light years.
(d) 124 light years.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In Chapter 1, how many planetary systems does the scientific writer tell von Däniken are considered possible by present-day astronomers?
(a) 16 billion.
(b) 30 billion.
(c) 20 billion.
(d) 10 billion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?

3. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?

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

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

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