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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 do the natives of Easter Island call their land, even today?
(a) Land of the Insects.
(b) Land of the Flyers.
(c) Land of the Kings.
(d) Land of the Bird Men.

2. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?
(a) Professor Agrest.
(b) Professor Anderson.
(c) Professor Brahm.
(d) Professor Bryg.

3. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1900.

4. 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?
(a) 40,000,000.
(b) 50,000,000.
(c) 90,000,000.
(d) 30,000,000.

5. To what telepathic Kentucky farmer does von Däniken refer in Chapter 11?
(a) Allen Schwartz.
(b) Stephen Wright.
(c) Edgar Cayce.
(d) Andrew Michael.

Short Answer Questions

1. The tablets found with the Easter Island statues were made of what material?

2. Von Däniken asserts that Easter Island could not have provided food for more than how many inhabitants?

3. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?

4. The perfecting of radar took how many years?

5. What do archeologists estimate the population of Egypt to have been during the building of the Great Pyramid?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does von Däniken theorize happened to the Mayans?

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

3. What does von Däniken make of the majority of UFO sightings? What does he say of the minority?

4. What is the legend of Quetzalcoatl?

5. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

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

7. What does von Däniken say of the scientific community and false abduction stories in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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