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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, what does von Däniken suggest must take over the work of archeological research?
(a) Museum curators.
(b) Novelists.
(c) Astronauts.
(d) Modern laboratories.

2. 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?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 15,000.

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

4. Piri Reis is an admiral from where?
(a) Greece.
(b) Turkey.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

5. How do the hypothetical space travelers travel into the air in Chapter 2?
(a) Rocket belts.
(b) Hovercraft.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Air rockets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?

2. What do the geometric features of Peru resemble to von Däniken?

3. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?

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

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

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