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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 365.
(b) 52.
(c) 23.
(d) 100.

2. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?
(a) 15th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 17th.

3. The area of the base of the Great Pyramid divided by twice its height equals what?
(a) 141.
(b) Pi.
(c) 3.
(d) 2,000.

4. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?
(a) 2,450,000.
(b) 5,000,000.
(c) 2,600,000.
(d) 3,000,000.

5. As far as the tunneling techniques, von Däniken says that the tomb of Tety in the 6th dynasty is no different than whose of the New Kingdom?
(a) Rameses I.
(b) Tukukaana I.
(c) Rameses II.
(d) Tukatatan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Our Inheritance of the Great Pyramid?

2. From where does the jade come in the necklace of Tikal in Guatemala?

3. What is the name of the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

4. In what year was a stone relief of the god Kukumatz found in Palenque?

5. When did Greek sponge divers discover a wrecked ship loaded with marble and bronze statues?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does von Däniken make of the majority of UFO sightings? What does he say of the minority?

2. Describe the first attempt to reach extraterrestrials via radio signals.

3. What is the size of the statues on Easter Island?

4. What conjecture does von Däniken make about the building of the pyramids in Chapter 7?

5. What does von Däniken theorize happened to the Mayans?

6. What does von Däniken write of the Mayan calendar in Chapter 9?

7. What is the legend of Quetzalcoatl?

8. What risky and controversial subject does von Däniken approach in Chapter 10? How does he approach this?

9. What connections does von Däniken draw between Easter Island and Tiahuanaco?

10. Who is Virococha?

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