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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. Where is Bolivia's capital located?
(a) 5,000 feet below its airport.
(b) In Lima.
(c) At the same level as its airport.
(d) 5,000 feet above its airport.

2. What was one of Hancock's theories about the maps in Chapter 2?
(a) They were drawn by computers.
(b) They were drawn by aliens from outer space.
(c) They were drawn by different groups of people.
(d) They were drawn by super-humans.

3. How long was the mysterious surface road on the coast and through the Andes?
(a) 15,000 kilometers.
(b) 25,000 miles.
(c) 15,000 miles.
(d) 25,000 kilometers.

4. What is "Flight of the Condor"?
(a) A map showing birds' migratory patterns.
(b) Birds in flight.
(c) An airline flight showcasing images of animals on the ground.
(d) A painting of birds.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Olmecs' sculptures look like?

3. What was another of Hancock's theories about the maps in Chapter 2?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the Introduction, what was Hancock trying to determine?

3. What was Viracocha credited with bringing to Peru?

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. 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?

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

8. What tends to accompany stories of ice ages?

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

10. How and why were the Nazca able to accomplish what they did with their lines?

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