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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Easter Island is located how many miles off the coast of Chile?
(a) 2,350.
(b) 400.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,400.

2. What is the title of Chapter 11?
(a) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(b) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(c) The Search for Direct Communication.
(d) Tomorrow.

3. How many hours did the first series of experiments in Green Bank, West Virginia last?
(a) 140 hours.
(b) 170 hours.
(c) 150 hours.
(d) 120 hours.

4. What newspaper is cited in Chapter 10 with the headline "Stimulus from Moon Rockets"?
(a) Der Stern.
(b) Ein Zech.
(c) Die Ziet.
(d) Der Zich.

5. What Dutch astrophysicist determined that CTA 102 must be about 10 billion light years from Earth?
(a) Arnold Sneider.
(b) Leslie Golden.
(c) Maarten Schmidt.
(d) Jan Leys.

6. What does von Däniken say in Chapter 10 is the estimate of children in danger of dying of hunger in India?
(a) 30,000,000.
(b) 25,000,000.
(c) 10,000,000.
(d) 20,000,000.

7. The Incas cultivated what in 3000 B.C., which is startling to scientists?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Trees.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Peanuts.

8. What is the title of Chapter 8?
(a) The Earth's Experience in Space.
(b) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(c) The Mysteries of South America and Other Oddities.
(d) The Search for Direct Communication.

9. Tikal lies how many miles from the Gulf of Honduras?
(a) 150.
(b) 130.
(c) 109.
(d) 200.

10. Whose calendar is considered by von Däniken to be the most accurate in the world?
(a) Eskimos.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Aztecs.
(d) Mayans.

11. Von Däniken asserts that the stone relief representing the god Kukumatz is on a what?
(a) Horse.
(b) Rocket.
(c) Flying carpet.
(d) Balloon.

12. The horse-drawn cart was not introduced until about what time?
(a) 1000 B.C.
(b) 1600 B.C.
(c) 1200 B.C.
(d) 1500 B.C.

13. The pyramid of Cholula is how many miles south of the Mexican capital?
(a) 30.
(b) 60.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

14. When did Francisco Pizarro question the Incas about Tiahuanaco?
(a) 1537.
(b) 1500.
(c) 1465.
(d) 1532.

15. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) The Mysteries of South America and Other Oddities.
(b) The Search for Direct Communication.
(c) The Earth's Experience in Space.
(d) Tomorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. In what year did an experiment begin in Green Bank, West Virginia, as cited by von Däniken in Chapter 11?

3. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which are more than how many feet long?

4. In the experiment cited in Chapter 11 in Green Bank, West Virginia, a radio-telescope was trained on what star?

5. How long did the development of the telephone take?

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