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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many feet high is the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 60 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 10 feet.

2. The Mayans believed that a fixed number of steps of a building had to be completed every how many years?
(a) 100.
(b) 52.
(c) 365.
(d) 23.

3. The terrace north of Damascus is a platform built of stone blocks, some of which are more than how many feet long?
(a) 30.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 65.

4. Where were the tablets of King Hammurabi found?
(a) Kuyunjik.
(b) Mantuttu.
(c) Kukunota.
(d) Gilgamesh.

5. The pre-Incan people believed that the gods came down to them from the constellation of what?
(a) Gemini.
(b) Ares.
(c) Pleiades.
(d) Orestes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blocks make up the Great Pyramid?

2. At the beginning of what century did the first European settlers land on Easter Island?

3. Tikal lies how many miles from the Gulf of Honduras?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 8 as saying, "The positive things about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible."

5. The first "tourist" photos were radioed to Earth from Mars in the spring of what year?

(see the answer key)

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