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

2. What animal image can be found in Nazca?
(a) A bear.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) A whale.
(d) A dog.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weight of the boulders that made up the man-made gate in Chapter 7?

2. How did the Mayans get a complex accurate calendar?

3. What did the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions prove?

4. What continent is on the ancient maps in The Mystery of the Maps?

5. What natural disasters accompany the Mayan myths?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?

2. How did the ancients come upon their use of pi?

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

4. Why are stories of floods so universal?

5. How could the same type of vessel used in the Nile also appear in Lake Titicaca?

6. Is the theory of Earth-crust displacement plausible?

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

8. 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?

9. In the Introduction, why did Hancock study the Admiral Piri Reis Map?

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

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