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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who acted as leader of the project in Green Bank, West Virginia from Chapter 11?
(a) Dr. Francis Williams.
(b) Dr John K. Cane.
(c) Dr. Frank Drake.
(d) Dr. Frank Warton.

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

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

5. 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) The moon.
(b) Venus.
(c) The sun.
(d) Jupiter.

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

7. What is the Mayan religion of the Feathered Serpent called?
(a) Orinoko.
(b) Panticia.
(c) Teotihican.
(d) Kukulkan.

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

9. According to the Green Bank Formula, there are at any given moment in our galaxy alone how many different civilizations attempting to make contact with us?
(a) 50,000,000.
(b) 40,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 90,000,000.

10. Who excavated the bodies of youths and jewelry from the well at Chichen Itza?
(a) Andrew Lawrence Fuller.
(b) Robert Andrew Floyd.
(c) Edward Herbert Thompson.
(d) James T. Nelson.

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

12. The distance covered by the Mayans from the territory of the old to the new kingdom measures how many miles?
(a) 400.
(b) 250.
(c) 220.
(d) 100.

13. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?
(a) 3200 B.C.
(b) 3111 B.C.
(c) 1000 B.C.
(d) 2500 B.C.

14. In what year did an experiment begin in Green Bank, West Virginia, as cited by von Däniken in Chapter 11?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1960.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?

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

3. As far as the tunneling techniques, von Däniken says that the tomb of Tety in the 6th dynasty is no different than whose of the New Kingdom?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 8?

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