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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was a stone relief of the god Kukumatz found in Palenque?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1739.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1935.

2. Whose mythology describes the first tribes brought to the North by gods with brazen wings?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Incans.
(c) Eskimos.
(d) Mayans.

3. How many miles is Tikal from the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 236.
(d) 50.

4. The pre-Incan people believed that the gods came down to them from the constellation of what?
(a) Ares.
(b) Gemini.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pleiades.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?
(b) The Search for Direct Communication.
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(d) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Von Däniken asserts that the Piri Reis maps were derived through what?

2. What is the Noah of the Sumerians called?

3. In the mountainous region of Kohistan in Asia, a cave drawing reproduces the exact position of the stars as they were how many years ago?

4. The pyramid of Cholula is how many miles south of the Mexican capital?

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

(see the answer key)

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