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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. What does the silver represent?

2. What did Maggie notice about Sam?

3. What does the metal react with?

4. What did the Incas have a fascination with?

5. Who was the contact that Gil had sought to buy the chalice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What similarities were between the hotel robbery and the one at the lab?

2. What was the Monk's final act, and why did he do it?

3. What was so intriguing about the Friar's mummified remains?

4. Why did Gil put his pickax through the central computer?

5. Why didn't the Monk want to throw down his robes, despite the fact that they hindered his progress through the jungle?

6. What had been the instrument of Francisco's escape?

7. What does the symbol of the two swords and the crucifix mean and how does that information affect Henry?

8. Why hadn't the Inca captors stripped the man of his cross and robe?

9. Why had the Spaniards come to the jungle?

10. What strange behavior had the tarantulas adopted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the usage of pictographs and ideograms. What are they used for? What do they represent? Who used them and why go to all that trouble instead of creating a language and developing it over time, as many other native people did?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss organic nanobots and inorganic nanobots. Which of these two groups of nanobots has the advantage and why? Which of these is more easily converted to corporate or government usage?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Incans' tribal views of religion and sacrifice. How are these similar to other tribal groups of their time frame? How are they different? How is it likely that the modern world would impact the Incans that were living in isolation between the peaks?

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