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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who worked out the basic rocket equation of space time in Chapter 2?
(a) Professor Janeson.
(b) Professor Ackeret.
(c) Professor Brahm.
(d) Professor Beckett.

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

3. How will our hypothetical spacemen learn the language of the savages in Chapter 2?
(a) Pre-emptive research.
(b) Books.
(c) Computers.
(d) Translators.

4. In Chapter 1, von Däniken suggests that our solar system may be only a tiny part of a considerably larger stellar system containing how many galaxies?
(a) 200.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

5. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 150.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how many tons is the payload in von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship?

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

3. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?

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

5. In the Introduction, Von Däniken speaks of finding numbers with how many digits?

(see the answer key)

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