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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, von Däniken asserts, "There is something _____ about our archeology!"
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Staid.
(c) Stifling.
(d) Inconsistent.

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

3. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

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

5. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?
(a) Jan Leys.
(b) James Walters.
(c) Michael Anderson.
(d) Willy Ley.

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

7. How many days is the Venusian year in Mayan understandings?
(a) 150.
(b) 584.
(c) 365.
(d) 265.

8. The Tibetan books of Tantyua and what also mention prehistoric flying machines?
(a) Myarka.
(b) Kromiska.
(c) Hrastima.
(d) Kantyua.

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

10. 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) 90 light years.
(b) 200 light years.
(c) 80 light years.
(d) 124 light years.

11. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 60 feet.
(c) 30 feet.
(d) 10 feet.

12. The ancient Indian epic which is more comprehensive than the Bible is over how many years old?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

13. 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) 20.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 200.
(d) 40.

14. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?
(a) 86 hours.
(b) 86 minutes.
(c) 80 hours.
(d) 8 days.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?

2. Around what time did Thutmose III live, as referred to in Chapter 6?

3. What is the Noah of the Sumerians called?

4. What friend, to whom von Däniken refers as his travel companion for many years, does he thank in the Introduction?

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

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