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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German magazine stated in 1967 that the majority of life-saving medical machines come from America?
(a) Der Zich.
(b) Der Stern.
(c) Der Heinz.
(d) Ein Zech.

2. What consists of a probe weighing barely one pound which is carried by a rocket as light baggage and ejected when near the planet?
(a) Retronation.
(b) Multivator.
(c) Mintoris.
(d) Microship.

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

4. In what year did the Nautilus experiment end?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1967.

5. More than how many new articles were on the market as a by-product to space research, according to von Däniken?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

6. When was Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1864.

7. What kind of trees does von Däniken assert grew in the Nile Delta at the time of the Great Pyramid's building?
(a) Palm.
(b) Oak.
(c) Willow.
(d) Elm.

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

9. The construction of the atomic bomb took how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 20.

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

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

12. When did the Mayans abandon their cities and temples?
(a) 1200 A.D.
(b) 400 A.D.
(c) 600 A.D.
(d) 200 A.D.

13. From where does the jade come in the necklace of Tikal in Guatemala?
(a) Iran.
(b) Chile.
(c) China.
(d) Peru.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?

2. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?

3. Tikal lies how many miles from the Gulf of Honduras?

4. What word is used for "light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation"?

5. What do the natives of Easter Island call their land, even today?

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