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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 hours did the first series of experiments in Green Bank, West Virginia last?
(a) 120 hours.
(b) 170 hours.
(c) 140 hours.
(d) 150 hours.

2. Who discovered the legends of the pre-Incan beliefs of white men who traveled in the air?
(a) Dutch settlers.
(b) Italian explorers.
(c) Spanish conquistadors.
(d) French settlers.

3. Who excavated the bodies of youths and jewelry from the well at Chichen Itza?
(a) James T. Nelson.
(b) Andrew Lawrence Fuller.
(c) Edward Herbert Thompson.
(d) Robert Andrew Floyd.

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

5. What is the new science called, according to von Däniken in Chapter 12?
(a) Androgoly.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Exobiology.
(d) Futurology.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what telepathic Kentucky farmer does von Däniken refer in Chapter 11?

2. Black and white television was on view after how many years' research?

3. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?

4. Who acted as leader of the project in Green Bank, West Virginia from Chapter 11?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Virococha?

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

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

4. What did Heyerdahl discover about the Easter Island statues?

5. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?

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

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

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

9. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

10. What does von Däniken write of telepathy in Chapter 11?

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