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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Von Däniken claims that astronauts today travel around the world in how many minutes in Chapter 2?
(a) 86 minutes.
(b) 80 hours.
(c) 8 days.
(d) 86 hours.

4. In Chapter 2, what are the fuel supplies in the rocket which can reach almost the speed of light converted to ?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Electromagnetic radiation.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Hydrogen and nitrogen.

5. Von Däniken writes in the Introduction that the age of space travel is no longer an age of what?
(a) Impossibility.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Secrets.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the savages believe the astronauts to be in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. What kind of rocket can reach a velocity close to the speed of light, according to von Däniken?

5. How many different species of living creatures are estimated to live on Earth, according to von Däniken?

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