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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. Whose calendar is considered by von Däniken to be the most accurate in the world?

2. What archeologist's investigations of Easter Island produced three clearly distinctive periods?

3. Black and white television was on view after how many years' research?

4. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?

5. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the established method by which the Egyptian pyramid blocks moved the stone slabs?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Mahabharata? Where did it originate and when? What examples from this text does von Däniken refer to specifically and why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss von Däniken's focus on the Mayan people. What is the importance of the Mayan calendar and observatory? Why does von Däniken believe the Mayans disappeared?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Epic of Gilgamesh. Where did it originate? With what other myths or theologies does it overlap? Why does von Däniken refer to it?

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