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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Olmecs' sculptures look like?
(a) Tall, dark, bearded men.
(b) Tall, dark women.
(c) Tall, Caucasian women.
(d) Tall, Caucasian, bearded men.

2. How were the men referred to, as Viracocha described?
(a) Black-skinned with auburn hair.
(b) White-skinned with auburn hair.
(c) White-skinned with brown hair.
(d) Brown-skinned with white hair.

3. According to Chapter 27, what happened to the sun during the Ice Age?
(a) It moved closer to the Earth.
(b) It became blinding.
(c) Its light and heat were extinguished.
(d) It moved farther from the Earth.

4. What did the god of the Andes bring?
(a) Floods, darkness, and chaos.
(b) War.
(c) Peace.
(d) Love, kindness, and charity.

5. How did Hancock view myths in Chapter 25?
(a) Memories man can recall clearly.
(b) Memories man chooses to forget.
(c) Made-up stories.
(d) Memories man cannot recall or forget.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Andes legends begin?

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

3. What is a lost civilization believed to be buried under in The Mystery of the Maps?

4. What is "Ricinulei"?

5. How large was the monolith that was moved to Machu Pichu?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, how and why might these giant boulders have been moved?

2. According to Chapter 27, what happened to animals during the Ice Age?

3. According to Chapter 27, what parts of the world were submerged by flooding during the Ice Age?

4. Why is it believed that the Tiahuanaco culture was able to migrate after a catastrophe, whereas so many other cultures were wiped out by them?

5. How is the origin of the Mayan's advanced learning explained?

6. What was the explanation for early maps showing widely separated parts of the Earth?

7. What is the significance of the fact that so many things about the Earth seem to have been discovered long before modern man officially discovered them?

8. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?

9. What evidence is there in Chapter 27 to indicate that the freeze was sudden?

10. How were the findings of the Oronteus Finaeus Map verified?

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