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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The tablets found with the Easter Island statues were made of what material?

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

3. If the Egyptians had a daily piece rate of 10 blocks in a stack, they would have built the Great Pyramid in how many years?

4. How far away was the star upon which the telescope was trained from West Virginia in Chapter 11?

5. What was the population of cows in India in 1966?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What scientific efforts does von Däniken praise in Chapter 11?

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

5. What is the established method by which the Egyptian pyramid blocks moved the stone slabs?

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

7. What scientist and author does von Däniken speak of conversing with in Chapter 11? What is the consensus?

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

9. Who first discovered Easter Island and when? What was their reaction?

10. What expeditions does von Däniken write of in Russia in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Epic of Gilgamesh. Where did it originate? With what other myths or theologies does it overlap? Why does von Däniken refer to it?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Piri Reis maps. Why are these important to von Däniken? What does he assert that the maps prove?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and describe the Nazca lines and Tiahuanaco. Where are these artifacts located? Why does the author cite them as evidence?

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