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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What biologist recreated atmospheric conditions similar to those on Jupiter and bred bacteria and mites in the atmosphere?
(a) Dr. Stephen Wright.
(b) Dr. Gerald Kimble.
(c) Dr. Daniel Kimgrow.
(d) Dr. Sanford Siegel.

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

5. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Carbon.

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

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

8. 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) 50.
(b) 150.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

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

10. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?
(a) The Mayans.
(b) The Eskimos.
(c) The Incas.
(d) The Enkidu.

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

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

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

14. What is the exact calculation of the terrestrial calendar in days today?
(a) 365.2111.
(b) 365.2422.
(c) 365.4511.
(d) 365.2155.

15. Von Däniken suggests that the planet upon which the hypothetical spaceship lands in Chapter 2 is how many years earlier in development than the Earth?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 9,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?

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

3. The Tibetan books of Tantyua and what also mention prehistoric flying machines?

4. In the Introduction, what does von Däniken suggest must take over the work of archeological research?

5. What astronomer estimates that there are some 10 to the 20th-power stars within the range of our telescopes?

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