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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Mystery of the Myths: 1. A Species with Amnesia.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of weapon did the god of the Andes have?
(a) Metal.
(b) Poison.
(c) Wooden.
(d) Fire.

4. How is longitude defined?
(a) Degrees east or west from the prime meridian.
(b) Degrees east or west from Greenwich.
(c) Degrees north or south from the prime meridian.
(d) Degrees north or south from Greenwich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool enabled longitude to be determined?

2. When was Machu Pichu discovered?

3. In what forms did the god of the Andes exist?

4. Where did the story of Utnapishtim take place?

5. According to Chapter 26, how many years ago did Ice Age glaciation expand to its fullest extent in the world?

(see the answer key)

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