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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 Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?
(a) Maya.
(b) Peru.
(c) Chichen Itza.
(d) Teotihuacan.

2. In what year did Russian astronomers inform the world they had possibly received signals from an extraterrestrial super-civilization?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1964.

3. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 300.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 236.

4. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?
(a) Baalbek.
(b) Gibraltar.
(c) Yukatan.
(d) Ziusudra.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the project in Green Bank, West Virginia?

3. According to the manuscript at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, who ordered the Great Pyramid built?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 8 as saying, "The positive things about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible."

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What scientific efforts does von Däniken praise in Chapter 11?

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

9. When did the Mayan evacuation take place? What is strange about this event?

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

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