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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. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Ibis.
(b) Ramses.
(c) Ra.
(d) Isis.
2. How long did the development of the telephone take?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 56 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 30 years.
3. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 23.
(b) 100.
(c) 365.
(d) 52.
4. Whose calendar is considered by von Däniken to be the most accurate in the world?
(a) Mayans.
(b) Eskimos.
(c) Aztecs.
(d) Egyptians.
5. In what year did an experiment begin in Green Bank, West Virginia, as cited by von Däniken in Chapter 11?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1967.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do archeologists estimate the population of Egypt to have been during the building of the Great Pyramid?
2. From where does the jade come in the necklace of Tikal in Guatemala?
3. What do the natives of Easter Island call their land, even today?
4. The distance covered by the Mayans from the territory of the old to the new kingdom measures how many miles?
5. The pyramid field of _____ is 25 miles north of Mexico City.
Short Essay Questions
1. What connections does von Däniken draw between Easter Island and Tiahuanaco?
2. What are some of the issues that von Däniken presents to the established and accepted method of moving blocks to build the Pyramids?
3. What conjecture does von Däniken make about the building of the pyramids in Chapter 7?
4. What scientific efforts does von Däniken praise in Chapter 11?
5. In the end of Chapter 9, what artifacts does von Däniken note from around the globe?
6. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?
7. Who is Virococha?
8. What does von Däniken say of the scientific community and false abduction stories in Chapter 10?
9. What physical and mathematical characteristics of the Egyptian Pyramids does von Däniken discuss in Chapter 7?
10. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?
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