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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?
(a) Professor Bryg.
(b) Professor Brahm.
(c) Professor Agrest.
(d) Professor Anderson.

2. What is the new science called, according to von Däniken in Chapter 12?
(a) Scientology.
(b) Androgoly.
(c) Exobiology.
(d) Futurology.

3. In what year did Russian astronomers inform the world they had possibly received signals from an extraterrestrial super-civilization?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1968.

4. Who wrote Brave New World?
(a) Jeremy Martin.
(b) Kenneth Grayson.
(c) James Hurley.
(d) Aldous Huxley.

5. What was the name of the project in Green Bank, West Virginia?
(a) Project Cyrillis.
(b) Project Onta.
(c) Project Ozma.
(d) Project Apollo.

6. What does von Däniken say that scientists estimate the world population to be in 2050?
(a) 8.7 billion.
(b) 9.2 billion.
(c) 10.5 billion.
(d) 4.6 billion.

7. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(b) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexpected.
(d) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.

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

9. What is the title of Chapter 9?
(a) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(b) The Earth's Experience in Space.
(c) The Mysteries of South America and Other Oddities.
(d) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?

10. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?
(a) 19th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 17th.

11. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which weigh nearly how many tons?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 2,000.

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

13. What do archeologists estimate the population of Egypt to have been during the building of the Great Pyramid?
(a) 60,000,000.
(b) 55,000,000.
(c) 76,000,000.
(d) 50,000,000.

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

15. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 300.
(b) 50.
(c) 236.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?

2. The statues of Easter Island were between 33 and ___ feet high.

3. What archeologist's investigations of Easter Island produced three clearly distinctive periods?

4. What was the population of cows in India in 1966?

5. Von Däniken asserts that Easter Island could not have provided food for more than how many inhabitants?

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