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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason people live?

2. How does Joan manage to secure fire?

3. What did this person do?

4. What class does Joan remind Henry of from Rice University?

5. What is the spectrograph analysis number?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the temple.

2. About what was Pachacutec speaking when he asked if it was "not the wish of Inti"?

3. What had Sam and Norman done to earn the wrath of the Incas?

4. What brought up the feelings of loss in Sam?

5. For what reasons did the group realize that the sacrifice of the children had become necessary?

6. What was Norman's guilt?

7. Why was everyone instructed not to comment to the press?

8. What had brought up the feelings of loss in Henry?

9. How did Maggie know the story of Inkarri was true?

10. Why was Sam careful not to move too much on the plane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Mallaqui, and later the Incan revered 'gods' of Janan Pacha. What characteristics allowed the Inca's to identify them as their gods? What physiological differences set aside these alien forms from the human race? What social characteristics?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Substance Z. What characteristics gave it an impossible composition? How do these characteristics serve the needs of the substance? Does it serve the needs of the mallaqui, if so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the usage of pictographs and ideograms. What are they used for? What do they represent? Who used them and why go to all that trouble instead of creating a language and developing it over time, as many other native people did?

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