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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 many rats were living in India in 1966?
(a) 2.5 billion.
(b) 20 billion.
(c) 3 billion.
(d) 1.6 billion.

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

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

4. Black and white television was on view after how many years' research?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tikal lies how many miles from the Gulf of Honduras?

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

4. The height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops multiplied by a thousand million miles corresponds approximately to the distance of the earth to what?

5. In the experiment cited in Chapter 11 in Green Bank, West Virginia, a radio-telescope was trained on what star?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What scientist and author does von Däniken speak of conversing with in Chapter 11? What is the consensus?

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

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

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

9. In the end of Chapter 9, what artifacts does von Däniken note from around the globe?

10. What present-day examples does von Däniken cite for body preservation in Chapter 7?

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