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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around what did Gilgamesh build a great wall?
(a) Imra.
(b) Uruk.
(c) Namuk.
(d) Runka.

2. In what language were the tablets of King Hammurabi written?
(a) Akkadian.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Sumerian.

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) Ancient Imagination and Legends, or Ancient Facts?
(b) When Our Spaceship Landed on Earth.
(c) The Improbable World of the Unexplained.
(d) The Search for Direct Communication.

4. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?
(a) P. Allan.
(b) G. Kimple.
(c) M. Rosleigh.
(d) M. Michelin.

5. Von Däniken asserts in Chapter 1 that even on planet Earth there are organisms which live without what?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Carbon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, how many light years might the larger stellar system stretch, according to von Däniken?

3. Von Däniken says in Chapter 2, "Let us assume that our spaceship will leave the earth for an unknown distant sun in ____ years' time."

4. What biologist recreated atmospheric conditions similar to those on Jupiter and bred bacteria and mites in the atmosphere?

5. How many tons of fuel would be on von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship in Chapter 2?

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