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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 pyramid field of _____ is 25 miles north of Mexico City.

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

3. How many rats were living in India in 1966?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the end of Chapter 9, what artifacts does von Däniken note from around the globe?

4. What does von Däniken wonder about Egyptian mummification in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

8. Who is Virococha?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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