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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. How long did the development of the telephone take?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 56 years.

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

3. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which are more than how many feet long?
(a) 30.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 65.

4. What radiation frequency does von Däniken suggest may be known throughout the universe?
(a) 340 megahetrz.
(b) 1420 megahertz.
(c) 100 megahertz.
(d) 1200 megahertz.

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.

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. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?

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

5. How many rats were living in India in 1966?

Short Essay Questions

1. What physical and mathematical characteristics of the Egyptian Pyramids does von Däniken discuss in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

5. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

6. What is von Däniken's argument for space travel in relation to population?

7. Who is Virococha?

8. What does von Däniken wonder about Egyptian mummification in Chapter 7?

9. When did the Mayan evacuation take place? What is strange about this event?

10. What connections does von Däniken draw between Easter Island and Tiahuanaco?

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