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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plumed Serpent: Central America.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long was Queen Maud Land ice-free?
(a) 1,000 years.
(b) 9,000 years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) 5,000 years.

3. What did the Olmecs invent?
(a) A calendar system.
(b) Tools for sculpture.
(c) Slingshots and arrows.
(d) A zodiac system.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the mountains Hancock visited in The Mystery of the Maps?

2. What did the Piri Reis Map precisely locate?

3. How is longitude defined?

4. With whom did Graham Hancock travel in The Mystery of the Maps?

5. When was the Oronteus Finaeus Map drawn?

(see the answer key)

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