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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. Where is Lake Titicaca located?
(a) 12,500 feet above sea level.
(b) At sea level.
(c) In Lima.
(d) 12,500 feet below sea level.

2. How high was the man-made gate in Chapter 7?
(a) 12 meters.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) 12 feet.
(d) 20 meters.

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

4. When was Machu Pichu discovered?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1511.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1921.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of fossilized records of evolution exist?

2. What did the sculptures of Kalasasaya resemble?

3. How is longitude defined?

4. According to Chapter 27, how many years ago did the peopling of America begin?

5. How did the Mayans get a complex accurate calendar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the findings of the Oronteus Finaeus Map verified?

2. 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?

3. Is the theory of Earth-crust displacement plausible?

4. Based on Chapter 26, what is currently known about the history of the Ice Age?

5. In the Introduction, why did Hancock study the Admiral Piri Reis Map?

6. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?

7. What evidence is there that the Nazcan were astronomers?

8. Why are stories of floods so universal?

9. What happened to the hardy, cold-adapted animals during the Ice Age?

10. What was the explanation for early maps showing widely separated parts of the Earth?

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