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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls from the sky in ancient Mayan myths?
(a) A meteorite.
(b) The sun and moon.
(c) The planets.
(d) The stars.

2. Who vanquished Quetzalcoatl?
(a) Gucumatz.
(b) Kukulkan.
(c) Tezcatilpoca.
(d) Votan.

3. What does Lake Titicaca contain?
(a) No fossil sea shells.
(b) Fresh-water creatures.
(c) No living creatures.
(d) Salt-water creatures.

4. Where are the Luiseno located?
(a) Chile.
(b) California.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Brazil.

5. How high were the boulders that made up the man-made gate in Chapter 7?
(a) 28 inches.
(b) 28 yards.
(c) 28 feet.
(d) 28 meters.

6. What are the symbols on the Yucatan's Pyramid of the Magician?
(a) Bearded men, spiders, and suns.
(b) Bearded men, serpents, and crosses.
(c) Serpents, spiders, and crosses.
(d) Serpents, spiders, and suns.

7. How did Hancock view myths in Chapter 25?
(a) Made-up stories.
(b) Memories man can recall clearly.
(c) Memories man cannot recall or forget.
(d) Memories man chooses to forget.

8. What did the Oronteus Finaeus Map confirm?
(a) A known civilization in the ice age.
(b) An unknown civilization in the ice age.
(c) A known civilization in the ice-free period.
(d) An unknown civilization in the ice-free period.

9. According to the Mayans, what precedes global destruction?
(a) Earthquakes and famine.
(b) Floods and darkness.
(c) Plagues and darkness.
(d) Famine and plagues.

10. What is "Ricinulei"?
(a) A map.
(b) A rare spider.
(c) A cartographer.
(d) A land mass.

11. What did Quetzalcoatl forbid?
(a) Building of altars.
(b) Use of weapons.
(c) Teaching of skills and science.
(d) Human sacrifice.

12. What are Mercator projections?
(a) The transfer of data from globe to paper without distortion.
(b) The projection of a globe on a screen.
(c) The transfer of data from paper to globe without distortion.
(d) The projection of a map on a screen.

13. According to Chapter 27, during what years did the Ice Age animal extinctions occur?
(a) 10,000-8,000 B.C.
(b) 8,000-6,000 B.C.
(c) 15,000-8,000 B.C.
(d) 15,000-10,000 B.C.

14. What destroyed any ancient civilizations in the Olmecs area of Mexico?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) Coal mining.
(c) Oil interests.
(d) Fossil thievery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Machu Pichu discovered?

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

3. What was one of Hancock's theories about the maps in Chapter 2?

4. What did the god of the Andes bring?

5. What is the Iranian cataclysm?

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