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

2. The tablets found with the Easter Island statues were made of what material?
(a) Platinum.
(b) Wood.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Stone.

3. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?
(a) 2,600,000.
(b) 2,450,000.
(c) 5,000,000.
(d) 3,000,000.

4. Who is cited from A Voyage to Laputa and Japan in Chapter 10?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Gerald Mansfield.
(c) Michael Ponsway.
(d) John Mayflower.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The perfecting of radar took how many years?

3. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?

4. The Incas cultivated what in 3000 B.C., which is startling to scientists?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the established method by which the Egyptian pyramid blocks moved the stone slabs?

2. What is the principle issue in determining how the Easter Island statues were moved?

3. What is the size of the statues on Easter Island?

4. How is the stone relief of the Mayans described in Chapter 9?

5. What conjecture does von Däniken make about the building of the pyramids in Chapter 7?

6. What does von Däniken feel of the attempts to contact outer space in Chapter 11?

7. What are some of the issues that von Däniken presents to the established and accepted method of moving blocks to build the Pyramids?

8. What expeditions does von Däniken write of in Russia in Chapter 10?

9. What "side effects" does von Däniken cite in Chapter 10 as valid reasons for space travel?

10. Who first discovered Easter Island and when? What was their reaction?

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