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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. What are Nazca lines?
(a) Lines in caves.
(b) Lines on a map.
(c) Land on which lines are drawn.
(d) Lines on trees.
2. In Chapter 23, what was used 2,000 years before it was "discovered"?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Pi.
(c) Numeric astrology.
(d) Astrophysics.
3. Where are the mountains Hancock visited in The Mystery of the Maps?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Central America.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Peru and Bolivia.
4. Where is the Great Pyramid located?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Peru.
(c) Bolivia.
(d) Central America.
5. What is the Iranian cataclysm?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Snow and ice.
(d) Plague.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many steps are there on the Temple of Kukulkan?
2. According to the Aztecs, which cycle are we currently in now?
3. What are Mercator projections?
4. What did the Piri Reis Map precisely locate?
5. According to Chapter 26, how many years ago did Ice Age glaciation expand to its fullest extent in the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the fact that so many things about the Earth seem to have been discovered long before modern man officially discovered them?
2. Should the Olmecs' homeland have been destroyed by oil interests?
3. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?
4. What happened to the hardy, cold-adapted animals during the Ice Age?
5. Why are the Nazca lines so significant?
6. In Chapter 17, how and why might these giant boulders have been moved?
7. Describe how the Andes viewed Viracocha.
8. Why did the Ancient Mexican civilizations believe sacrificing children would delay the destruction of the world?
9. How and why were the Nazca able to accomplish what they did with their lines?
10. Why is it believed that the Tiahuanaco culture was able to migrate after a catastrophe, whereas so many other cultures were wiped out by them?
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