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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 12?

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

3. What is the Mayan religion of the Feathered Serpent called?

4. What kind of trees does von Däniken assert grew in the Nile Delta at the time of the Great Pyramid's building?

5. In 1953, where was a UFO picked up on a radar screen of the Kinross Air Base?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the legend of Quetzalcoatl?

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

7. What is the "Green Bank Formula"?

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

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

10. What conjecture does von Däniken make about the building of the pyramids in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does von Däniken refer to as evidence for his theory in Native American and Eskimo mythology? Cite examples in your answer and explain how they support his theories.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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