View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 10?

2. What does not grow on Easter Island?

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

4. Who is cited from A Voyage to Laputa and Japan in Chapter 10?

5. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "side effects" does von Däniken cite in Chapter 10 as valid reasons for space travel?

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Virococha?

7. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

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

9. What is the legend of Quetzalcoatl?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. What does traditional, mainstream archeology tell us? How does von Däniken's theory differ?

Essay Topic 2

What does von Däniken's theory maintain regarding intergalactic breeding and genetic alteration?

Essay Topic 3

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 797 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample