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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where is the Great Idol?
(a) Sacsahumain.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Tiahuanaco.
(d) Sumeria.
2. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) Fiery Chariots from the Heavens.
(b) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(d) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
3. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Was God an Astronaut?
(b) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?
(c) Fiery Chariots from the Heavens.
(d) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
4. The Tibetan books of Tantyua and what also mention prehistoric flying machines?
(a) Myarka.
(b) Kromiska.
(c) Kantyua.
(d) Hrastima.
5. In the ninth tablet regarding Gilgamesh, who is the friend whose loss is mourned?
(a) Orco.
(b) Enkidu.
(c) Amnika.
(d) Anmar.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?
2. Whose story in Indian mythology is paralleled by the story of Enoch and Elijah of the Bible?
3. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?
4. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?
5. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is von Däniken's central theory in the book as presented in the Introduction and Chapter 1?
2. What example of Moses is cited by Daniken as proof of his theory in Chapter 4?
3. Who is Jules Verne and why does von Däniken mention him in Chapter 2?
4. What are some of the examples in Tiahuanaco that von Däniken presents in Chapter 3?
5. What are the Piri Reis maps?
6. What is the Mahabharata discussed in Chapter 6?
7. What does von Däniken suggest that scientists shed in their examinations?
8. Why would the crew choose the planet they would in the scenario in Chapter 2?
9. What does von Däniken write of the Eskimo and Native American myths in Chapter 6?
10. What does von Däniken present the reader with in his Introduction to the book?
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