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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. In Chapter 7, von Däniken writes that to the north of Damascus lies the terrace of what?
(a) Ziusudra.
(b) Yukatan.
(c) Gibraltar.
(d) Baalbek.

2. Who excavated the bodies of youths and jewelry from the well at Chichen Itza?
(a) James T. Nelson.
(b) Robert Andrew Floyd.
(c) Andrew Lawrence Fuller.
(d) Edward Herbert Thompson.

3. What does von Däniken say that scientists estimate the world population to be in 2050?
(a) 4.6 billion.
(b) 10.5 billion.
(c) 8.7 billion.
(d) 9.2 billion.

4. According to the Green Bank Formula, there are at any given moment in our galaxy alone how many different civilizations attempting to make contact with us?
(a) 40,000,000.
(b) 90,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 50,000,000.

5. Von Däniken asserts that the stone relief representing the god Kukumatz is on a what?
(a) Balloon.
(b) Horse.
(c) Rocket.
(d) Flying carpet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Russian astronomers inform the world they had possibly received signals from an extraterrestrial super-civilization?

2. What Russian professor considers it possible that the terrace north of Damascus may have been an airfield?

3. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?

4. In Chapter 9, where were all the edifices built according to the Mayan calendar?

5. The pyramid of Cholula is how many miles south of the Mexican capital?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does von Däniken write of telepathy in Chapter 11?

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

4. What did Heyerdahl discover about the Easter Island statues?

5. What is the principle issue in determining how the Easter Island statues were moved?

6. What present-day examples does von Däniken cite for body preservation in Chapter 7?

7. What is von Däniken's argument for space travel in relation to population?

8. What does von Däniken say of the scientific community and false abduction stories in Chapter 10?

9. In the end of Chapter 9, what artifacts does von Däniken note from around the globe?

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

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