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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?
(a) Maya.
(b) Peru.
(c) Teotihuacan.
(d) Chichen Itza.

2. The height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops multiplied by a thousand million miles corresponds approximately to the distance of the earth to what?
(a) Venus.
(b) The moon.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) The sun.

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

4. What do the natives of Easter Island call their land, even today?
(a) Land of the Flyers.
(b) Land of the Insects.
(c) Land of the Bird Men.
(d) Land of the Kings.

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

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

7. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Isis.
(b) Ramses.
(c) Ra.
(d) Ibis.

8. In 1953, where was a UFO picked up on a radar screen of the Kinross Air Base?
(a) In Oregon.
(b) In Michigan.
(c) In Nevada.
(d) In Arizona.

9. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?
(a) Gibraltar.
(b) Ziusudra.
(c) Baalbek.
(d) Yukatan.

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

11. To what telepathic Kentucky farmer does von Däniken refer in Chapter 11?
(a) Edgar Cayce.
(b) Allen Schwartz.
(c) Andrew Michael.
(d) Stephen Wright.

12. How long did the development of the telephone take?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 22 years.
(c) 56 years.
(d) 60 years.

13. What word is used for "light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation"?
(a) Neon.
(b) Beam.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Laser.

14. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?
(a) James Edgar Rogers.
(b) Michael Sweet.
(c) Charles Piazzi Smith.
(d) Jonathan Swift.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose calendar is considered by von Däniken to be the most accurate in the world?

2. What is the name of the pyramid that is the biggest of the Mayans, belonging to the god Kukulkan?

3. What Dutch astrophysicist determined that CTA 102 must be about 10 billion light years from Earth?

4. What consists of a probe weighing barely one pound which is carried by a rocket as light baggage and ejected when near the planet?

5. Some of the statues of Easter Island weighed as much as how many tons?

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