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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, von Däniken asserts, "There is something _____ about our archeology!"
(a) Staid.
(b) Stifling.
(c) Inconsistent.
(d) Unnecessary.

2. What does von Däniken suggest destroyed Sodom?
(a) God.
(b) A spaceship.
(c) An H-bomb.
(d) An angel.

3. What biochemist does von Däniken cite in Chapter 1 as hypothesizing that the conditions for life may have developed more quickly on other planets?
(a) Dr. James Wasman.
(b) Dr. Stanley Miller.
(c) Dr. Donald Warsaw.
(d) Dr. Sarah Stein.

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

5. The ancient Indian epic which is more comprehensive than the Bible is over how many years old?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

6. What do the savages believe the astronauts to be in Chapter 2?
(a) Aliens.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Kings.
(d) Gods.

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

8. 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) 9,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 8,000.

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

10. From where in the Bible does von Däniken cite the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) Genesis 3:12-21.
(b) Genesis 6:4.
(c) Genesis 19:1-28.
(d) Genesis 4:1.

11. How many stars does the telescope of even a small observatory make visible, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 20,000,000.
(d) 200,000.

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

13. Who created the geometric features in Peru which von Däniken discusses in Chapter 3?
(a) The Enkidu.
(b) The Mayans.
(c) The Eskimos.
(d) The Incas.

14. 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.

15. What figure from the Bible does von Däniken cite from Exodus 15:10 in Chapter 4?
(a) Moses.
(b) David.
(c) Noah.
(d) Ezekiel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fixed stars are in our Milky Way, according to von Däniken in Chapter 1?

2. What book in the Bible is paralleled by the main thread of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

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

4. In the mountainous region of Kohistan in Asia, a cave drawing reproduces the exact position of the stars as they were how many years ago?

5. The pre-Incan people believed that the gods came down to them from the constellation of what?

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