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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What kind of rocket can reach a velocity close to the speed of light, according to von Däniken?
(a) Nitrogen.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Radium.
(d) Photon.

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

4. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1958.

5. In Chapter 2, how many tons is the payload in von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship?
(a) 400.
(b) 200.
(c) 300.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, along with H.S. Bellamy, wrote a book about the Great Idol?

2. What does von Däniken suggest destroyed Sodom?

3. How does time on the hypothetical spaceship of Chapter 2 pass in relation to time on earth?

4. In Chapter 5, von Däniken states as an established fact that the original version of the Epic of Gilgamesh stems from whom?

5. Around what time did Thutmose III live, as referred to in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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