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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. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which weigh nearly how many tons?

2. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?

3. In the experiment cited in Chapter 11 in Green Bank, West Virginia, a radio-telescope was trained on what star?

4. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?

5. What is the title of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the first attempt to reach extraterrestrials via radio signals.

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

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

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

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 present-day examples does von Däniken cite for body preservation in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe von Däniken's interpretations from Genesis, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the prophet Ezekiel and how he determines there are extraterrestrials involved.

Essay Topic 2

What major points does von Däniken make of the Sumerian people? What mathematical advanced did they possess? How does the author's theory involve them?

Essay Topic 3

What examples does von Däniken cite involving Noah and Moses from the Holy Bible? What is his theory on the Ark of Covenance?

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