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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. In 1953, where was a UFO picked up on a radar screen of the Kinross Air Base?
(a) In Michigan.
(b) In Oregon.
(c) In Arizona.
(d) In Nevada.

2. In what year had two men spotted two unidentified flying objects on their radar screen at the Naval Airbase in Maryland?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1950.

3. What is the title of Chapter 11?
(a) Tomorrow.
(b) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(c) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(d) The Search for Direct Communication.

4. What is the Mayan religion of the Feathered Serpent called?
(a) Kukulkan.
(b) Panticia.
(c) Teotihican.
(d) Orinoko.

5. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?
(a) 3,000,000.
(b) 5,000,000.
(c) 2,600,000.
(d) 2,450,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

2. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?

3. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?

4. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first attempt to reach extraterrestrials via radio signals.

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

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

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

5. What does von Däniken write of the Mayan calendar in Chapter 9?

6. What expeditions does von Däniken write of in Russia in Chapter 10?

7. What are some of the issues that von Däniken presents to the established and accepted method of moving blocks to build the Pyramids?

8. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

9. Who is Virococha?

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

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