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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

2. In Chapter 3, von Däniken writes that our historical past is pieced together through what kind of knowledge?
(a) Visual.
(b) Written.
(c) Oral.
(d) Indirect.

3. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 20,000,000.
(d) 200,000.

4. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1950.

5. The city of Tiahuanaco lies at a height of more than how many feet?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 13,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how many light years might the larger stellar system stretch, according to von Däniken?

2. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?

3. The Great Idol is a block of red sandstone that weighs how many tons?

4. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?

5. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?

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