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

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

3. Where is Lake Titicaca located?
(a) 12,500 feet below sea level.
(b) 12,500 feet above sea level.
(c) At sea level.
(d) In Lima.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What illusion appears on the Temple of Kululkan?

2. Who was Quetzalcoatl?

3. What was map-maker Gerard Kremer also known as?

4. According to Chapter 27, what accompanied the Ice Age?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence is there that the Nazcan were astronomers?

2. Why are stories of floods so universal?

3. In Chapter 14, how is the god Quetzlcoatl characterized?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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