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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Some of the statues of Easter Island weighed as much as how many tons?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 20.
(d) 200.

4. What was the population of cows in India in 1966?
(a) 80,000,000.
(b) 70,000,000.
(c) 50,000,000.
(d) 30,000,000.

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

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

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

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

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

10. The statues of Easter Island were between 33 and ___ feet high.
(a) 27.
(b) 75.
(c) 66.
(d) 43.

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

12. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1950.

13. What does von Däniken say in Chapter 10 is the estimate of children in danger of dying of hunger in India?
(a) 20,000,000.
(b) 10,000,000.
(c) 25,000,000.
(d) 30,000,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Russian astronomers inform the world they had possibly received signals from an extraterrestrial super-civilization?

2. In what year did an experiment begin in Green Bank, West Virginia, as cited by von Däniken in Chapter 11?

3. The distance covered by the Mayans from the territory of the old to the new kingdom measures how many miles?

4. What newspaper is cited in Chapter 10 with the headline "Stimulus from Moon Rockets"?

5. Who wrote Brave New World?

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