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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What well-known scientific writer told von Däniken, "The estimated number of stars in our Milky Way alone amounts to 30 billion"?
(a) James Walters.
(b) Willy Ley.
(c) Jan Leys.
(d) Michael Anderson.

4. What geometrical figures does von Däniken refer to in Peru?
(a) Sacsahuaman.
(b) Nazca lines.
(c) Quacksysla.
(d) Topkapi lines.

5. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 30 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 60 feet.

6. Who was expecting the angels at the gate in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) Nathaniel.
(b) Herod.
(c) Lot.
(d) Moses.

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

8. 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) 40.
(b) 200.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 20.

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

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

11. Von Däniken suggests that the planet upon which the hypothetical spaceship lands in Chapter 2 is how many years earlier in development than the Earth?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 5,000.

12. In the ninth tablet regarding Gilgamesh, who is the friend whose loss is mourned?
(a) Enkidu.
(b) Orco.
(c) Amnika.
(d) Anmar.

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

14. How many tons of fuel would be on von Däniken's hypothetical spaceship in Chapter 2?
(a) 99,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 125,000.
(d) 99,800.

15. The ancient Indian epic which is more comprehensive than the Bible is called what?
(a) Sterilitis.
(b) Mahabharata.
(c) Gilgamesh.
(d) Oresnso.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose story in Indian mythology is paralleled by the story of Enoch and Elijah of the Bible?

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

4. In Chapter 2, von Däniken writes that if the hypothetical spaceship consists solely of its payload after a journey of how long, the supplies will have been used up?

5. What is the title of Chapter 1?

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