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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van Daniken states in Chapter 8 that our accurate knowledge of America is only how many years old?

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

3. What consists of a probe weighing barely one pound which is carried by a rocket as light baggage and ejected when near the planet?

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

5. The statues of Easter Island were between 33 and ___ feet high.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the size of the statues on Easter Island?

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

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

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

7. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what von Däniken writes about in Norse and Greek mythologies. What examples does he hold as evidence in these two regions? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe von Däniken's hypothesized scenario presented in Chapter 2. What takes place? What is this story a metaphor for?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Piri Reis maps. Why are these important to von Däniken? What does he assert that the maps prove?

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