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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 23, what was used 2,000 years before it was "discovered"?
(a) Astrophysics.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Numeric astrology.
(d) Pi.

2. Where are the mountains Hancock visited in The Mystery of the Maps?
(a) Central America.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Peru and Bolivia.
(d) Egypt.

3. How many sun cycles did the Aztecs believe in?
(a) 5.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

4. When was the Admiral Piri Reis map drawn?
(a) 1713.
(b) 1613.
(c) 1513.
(d) 1813.

5. How large was the monolith that was moved to Machu Pichu?
(a) 12 meters by 5 meters.
(b) 15 meters by 2 meters.
(c) 15 feet by 2 feet.
(d) 12 feet by 5 feet.

6. How many steps are there on the Temple of Kukulkan?
(a) 365.
(b) 91.
(c) 60.
(d) 12.

7. What did Quetzalcoatl's formulas provide?
(a) The basis for darkness predictions.
(b) The basis for ice age predictions.
(c) The basis for Mayan doomsday predictions.
(d) The basis for flooding predictions.

8. What are Nazca lines?
(a) Lines in caves.
(b) Lines on a map.
(c) Lines on trees.
(d) Land on which lines are drawn.

9. According to Chapter 26, how many years ago did Ice Age glaciation expand to its fullest extent in the world?
(a) 115,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 17,000.

10. According to Chapter 27, what happened to the sun during the Ice Age?
(a) It became blinding.
(b) It moved closer to the Earth.
(c) Its light and heat were extinguished.
(d) It moved farther from the Earth.

11. Where is the Great Pyramid located?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Peru.
(d) Central America.

12. What do the Olmecs' sculptures look like?
(a) Tall, Caucasian, bearded men.
(b) Tall, dark, bearded men.
(c) Tall, Caucasian women.
(d) Tall, dark women.

13. When could longitude first be determined?
(a) 1576.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1570.

14. What did the Piri Reis Map precisely locate?
(a) Longitudes of Europe and Asia.
(b) Latitudes of Europe and Asia.
(c) Latitudes of South America and Africa.
(d) Longitudes of South America and Africa.

15. What was map-maker Gerard Kremer also known as?
(a) Marmatire.
(b) Mermator.
(c) Mercatire.
(d) Mercator.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Oronteus Finaeus Map drawn?

2. What works of art were found in Tres Zapotes?

3. What did the sculptures of Kalasasaya resemble?

4. Where did the story of Utnapishtim take place?

5. What is a lost civilization believed to be buried under in The Mystery of the Maps?

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