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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 Heinz.
(b) Ein Zech.
(c) Der Zich.
(d) Der Stern.

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

3. What does not grow on Easter Island?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Trees.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Plants.

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

5. 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) 60,000,000.
(d) 76,000,000.

6. Von Däniken asserts that Easter Island could not have provided food for more than how many inhabitants?
(a) 200.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 500.

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

8. 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) 30,000,000.
(b) 50,000,000.
(c) 90,000,000.
(d) 40,000,000.

9. 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.

10. Who wrote the book Worlds in Collision in 1950?
(a) Alexander Sowenson.
(b) Zurich Mannsfried.
(c) Emile Zola.
(d) Immanuel Velikovsky.

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

12. According to the manuscript at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, who ordered the Great Pyramid built?
(a) King Surid.
(b) King David.
(c) King Rameses.
(d) King Tut.

13. Who is quoted in Chapter 8 as saying, "The positive things about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible."
(a) Mars Watson.
(b) James O'Keefe.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Michael Mann.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

2. In what year had two men spotted two unidentified flying objects on their radar screen at the Naval Airbase in Maryland?

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

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

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

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