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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mintoris.
(b) Multivator.
(c) Retronation.
(d) Microship.

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

3. What is the name of the pyramid that is the biggest of the Mayans, belonging to the god Kukulkan?
(a) Kukuana.
(b) Tikal.
(c) Chihuaha.
(d) Castillo.

4. How many years did it take photography to develop to the stage of a clear picture?
(a) 120.
(b) 140.
(c) 150.
(d) 112.

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

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

7. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 23.
(b) 52.
(c) 365.
(d) 100.

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

9. The area of the base of the Great Pyramid divided by twice its height equals what?
(a) 141.
(b) Pi.
(c) 3.
(d) 2,000.

10. 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?
(a) Tukatatan.
(b) Rameses II.
(c) Rameses I.
(d) Tukukaana I.

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

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

13. What archeologist's investigations of Easter Island produced three clearly distinctive periods?
(a) Thor Haygood.
(b) Thomas Haans.
(c) Thor Heyerdahl.
(d) David Johanson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Nautilus experiment end?

2. Van Daniken states in Chapter 8 that our accurate knowledge of America is only how many years old?

3. The stone for the hats of the statues on Easter Island weighed more than how many tons apiece?

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

5. If the Egyptians had a daily piece rate of 10 blocks in a stack, they would have built the Great Pyramid in how many years?

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