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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 could the First Men see?
(a) Things in the past.
(b) Things in the future.
(c) Things buried underground.
(d) Things hidden in the distance.

2. What tool enabled longitude to be determined?
(a) The marine tachometer.
(b) The marine chronometer.
(c) The marine barometer.
(d) The marine thermometer.

3. What did the Olmecs invent?
(a) A calendar system.
(b) A zodiac system.
(c) Slingshots and arrows.
(d) Tools for sculpture.

4. What do the maps in Chapter 2 show?
(a) Pictures by an existing civilization of close parts of the Earth.
(b) Pictures by a vanished civilization of widely separated parts of the Earth.
(c) Pictures by an existing civilization of widely separated parts of the Earth.
(d) Pictures by a vanished civilization of close parts of the Earth.

5. What did Quetzalcoatl's formulas provide?
(a) The basis for ice age predictions.
(b) The basis for darkness predictions.
(c) The basis for flooding predictions.
(d) The basis for Mayan doomsday predictions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the mountains Hancock visited in The Mystery of the Maps?

2. Where did the story of Gilgamesh take place?

3. What global catastrophe is discussed in Chapter 24?

4. How much did the monolith weigh that was moved to Machu Pichu?

5. In Chapter 23, what was used 2,000 years before it was "discovered"?

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