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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. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. How long did the development of the telephone take?

3. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?

4. What was the name of the project in Green Bank, West Virginia?

5. When did Francisco Pizarro question the Incas about Tiahuanaco?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who first discovered Easter Island and when? What was their reaction?

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

3. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

4. Who is Virococha?

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

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

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

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

9. What is von Däniken's argument for space travel in relation to population?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Define the term "photon," and explain how the author uses this term to describe "photon technology." What would this allow scientists to do?

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