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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. The perfecting of radar took how many years?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.
2. When did Francisco Pizarro question the Incas about Tiahuanaco?
(a) 1465.
(b) 1532.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1537.
3. The distance covered by the Mayans from the territory of the old to the new kingdom measures how many miles?
(a) 250.
(b) 220.
(c) 100.
(d) 400.
4. What Dutch astrophysicist determined that CTA 102 must be about 10 billion light years from Earth?
(a) Leslie Golden.
(b) Maarten Schmidt.
(c) Jan Leys.
(d) Arnold Sneider.
5. Who excavated the bodies of youths and jewelry from the well at Chichen Itza?
(a) James T. Nelson.
(b) Robert Andrew Floyd.
(c) Edward Herbert Thompson.
(d) Andrew Lawrence Fuller.
Short Answer Questions
1. Van Daniken states in Chapter 8 that our accurate knowledge of America is only how many years old?
2. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?
3. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?
4. Who wrote Brave New World?
5. In what year was a stone relief of the god Kukumatz found in Palenque?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does von Däniken write of the Mayan calendar in Chapter 9?
2. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?
3. Who first discovered Easter Island and when? What was their reaction?
4. What connections does von Däniken draw between Easter Island and Tiahuanaco?
5. What scientific efforts does von Däniken praise in Chapter 11?
6. What does von Däniken say of the scientific community and false abduction stories in Chapter 10?
7. What does von Däniken theorize happened to the Mayans?
8. Who is Virococha?
9. What is the principle issue in determining how the Easter Island statues were moved?
10. Describe the first attempt to reach extraterrestrials via radio signals.
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