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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 global catastrophe is discussed in Chapter 24?
(a) Fire.
(b) Flood.
(c) Plague.
(d) Famine.

2. What South American cataclysm is described in Chapter 25?
(a) Famine and plague.
(b) Ice and darkness.
(c) Flooding and war.
(d) Earthquakes and volcanoes.

3. Where is the Great Pyramid located?
(a) Central America.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Peru.

4. Who invented the tool enabling longitude to be determined?
(a) John Harrison.
(b) Howard Johnson.
(c) Harold Johnson.
(d) John Harris.

5. How high were the boulders that made up the man-made gate in Chapter 7?
(a) 28 feet.
(b) 28 yards.
(c) 28 inches.
(d) 28 meters.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 27, what happened to the sun during the Ice Age?

2. Who was Quetzalcoatl?

3. When was Machu Pichu discovered?

4. What is "Flight of the Condor"?

5. According to Chapter 26, how many years ago did Ice Age glaciation begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on Chapter 26, what is currently known about the history of the Ice Age?

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

3. Why did the Ancient Mexican civilizations believe sacrificing children would delay the destruction of the world?

4. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

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

6. What was Viracocha credited with bringing to Peru?

7. Why are stories of floods so universal?

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

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

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

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