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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 200.
(d) 150.

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

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

4. What electronic item does von Däniken write we have found from many thousands of years ago?
(a) A car.
(b) A helicopter.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) Batteries.

5. How many fixed stars are in our Milky Way, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 100 billion.
(b) 20 billion.
(c) 30 billion.
(d) 200 billion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What major astronomical event took place in the same period that von Däniken wrote the book?

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

4. Von Däniken writes in the Introduction that the age of space travel is no longer an age of what?

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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