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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. When did the Orion constellation appear in Egyptian chant?
(a) 30,000 years earlier.
(b) 40,000 years earlier.
(c) 3,000 years earlier.
(d) 4,000 years earlier.

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

3. In what forms did the god of the Andes exist?
(a) Geologist, explorer, prophet, and herbalist.
(b) Farmer, preacher, painter, and carpenter.
(c) Scientist, architect, sculptor, and engineer.
(d) Diplomat, storyteller, musician, and troubador.

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

5. What did the sculptures of Kalasasaya resemble?
(a) Viracocha.
(b) A peasant.
(c) A pharoah.
(d) Fish-garbed men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who vanquished Quetzalcoatl?

2. What do the maps in Chapter 2 show?

3. What did Quetzalcoatl's formulas provide?

4. What tool enabled longitude to be determined?

5. What are Nazca lines?

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