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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?
(a) Uruk.
(b) Namuk.
(c) Runka.
(d) Imra.

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

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

7. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?
(b) The Improbable World of the Unexpected.
(c) The Mysteries of South America and Other Oddities.
(d) Was God an Astronaut?

8. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(b) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(c) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(d) Fiery Chariots from the Heavens.

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

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

11. What geometrical figures does von Däniken refer to in Peru?
(a) Topkapi lines.
(b) Nazca lines.
(c) Quacksysla.
(d) Sacsahuaman.

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

13. 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) 80 light years.
(c) 90 light years.
(d) 124 light years.

14. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 25,000,000.
(c) 35,000,500.
(d) 2,000,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does time on the hypothetical spaceship of Chapter 2 pass in relation to time on earth?

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?

5. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?

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