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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Mayans, what precedes global destruction?
(a) Famine and plagues.
(b) Floods and darkness.
(c) Earthquakes and famine.
(d) Plagues and darkness.

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

3. Where did the story of Utnapishtim take place?
(a) Sumer.
(b) Mesopotamia.
(c) Colombia.
(d) Central America.

4. What changes their paths in Mayan myths?
(a) Tides.
(b) Stars.
(c) Explorers.
(d) Planets.

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

6. How many years of fossilized records of evolution exist?
(a) Five billion.
(b) Three and a half billion.
(c) Five million.
(d) Three and a half million.

7. What falls from the sky in ancient Mayan myths?
(a) The sun and moon.
(b) The stars.
(c) The planets.
(d) A meteorite.

8. How does Cholula's man-made mountain compare in size to the Great Pyramid?
(a) It is half the size.
(b) It is three times the size.
(c) It is one-third the size.
(d) It is twice the size.

9. According to Chapter 26, what were the Earth's conditions when man originated?
(a) Hot.
(b) Covered by water.
(c) Cold.
(d) Without water.

10. According to the Aztecs, which cycle are we currently in now?
(a) The fifth.
(b) The fiftieth.
(c) The twentieth.
(d) The tenth.

11. How many stories were discovered world-wide about mankind's near annihilation in Chapter 24?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 50.
(c) 500.
(d) 5,000.

12. How many years of darkness did the ancient Mayans experience?
(a) 26.
(b) 36.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

13. How did the Andes legends begin?
(a) In war time.
(b) In a time of peace and beauty.
(c) With floods, darkness, and chaos.
(d) In a time of discovery.

14. Where did the story of Gilgamesh take place?
(a) Sumer.
(b) Central America.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Colombia.

15. According to Chapter 26, how many years did deglaciation last?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 115,000.
(d) 17,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the illusion on the Temple of Kululkan last?

2. According to Chapter 27, during what years did the Ice Age animal extinctions occur?

3. What could the First Men see?

4. When did the Orion constellation appear in Egyptian chant?

5. What did the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions prove?

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