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

2. In what year did an experiment begin in Green Bank, West Virginia, as cited by von Däniken in Chapter 11?

3. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?

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

5. Van Daniken states in Chapter 8 that our accurate knowledge of America is only how many years old?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Virococha?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe the Nazca lines and Tiahuanaco. Where are these artifacts located? Why does the author cite them as evidence?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Piri Reis maps. Why are these important to von Däniken? What does he assert that the maps prove?

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