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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did the Mayan calendar begin?
(a) 2500 B.C.
(b) 1000 B.C.
(c) 3200 B.C.
(d) 3111 B.C.

3. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(b) Are There Intelligent Beings in the Cosmos?
(c) Easter Island - Land of the Bird Men.
(d) Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centers?

4. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Isis.
(b) Ibis.
(c) Ra.
(d) Ramses.

5. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?
(a) Professor Brahm.
(b) Professor Bryg.
(c) Professor Anderson.
(d) Professor Agrest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of cows in India in 1966?

2. In Chapter 1, how many planetary systems does the scientific writer tell von Däniken are considered possible by present-day astronomers?

3. What friend, to whom von Däniken refers as his travel companion for many years, does he thank in the Introduction?

4. Von Däniken is concerned with the fact that the edges of the Piri Reis maps do what at the edges?

5. 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?

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