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"Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge"

1. Where is Stonehenge?

A) Southern California.
B) Southern England.
C) Southern France.
D) Southern Spain.

2. At Stonehenge, the horizontal stones, or lintels, are __________.

A) Covered with graffiti.
B) Held in place with modern supports.
C) Almost perfectly level.
D) Angled toward the constellation of Orion.

3. The largest stone at Stonehenge has about 20 feet showing above ground, and about __________ feet underground.

A) 2.
B) 4.
C) 6.
D) 8.

4. There is no natural source for large stones near Stonehenge. True or false?

5. What is the term for the very hard sandstone blocks that were used at Stonehenge?

A) Hardus Blockus Sandstonus.
B) Concrete.
C) Steelstone.
D) Sarsens.

6. What is the problem with moving large stone blocks on log rollers?

A) The blocks always roll off the logs.
B) The logs make the blocks move too fast to control.
C) The blocks would crush the logs.
D) Too many logs would have been needed to move the many blocks at Stonehenge.

7. Instead of using log rollers, the builders of Stonehenge may have greased wooden rails with __________ to move the stones.

A) Blood.
B) Animal fat.
C) Saliva.
D) Crisco.

8. What did the builders of Stonehenge use to make rope for pulling their stones into position?

A) Wood bark fibers.
B) Horse hair.
C) Strong wheat shafts.
D) Bison ligament.

9. What may have been used as a counter-weight to tip the larger stones into slanted pits?

A) A woolly mammoth.
B) The Venus of Willendorf.
C) Smaller stones.
D) Log rollers.

10. Which of the following used to be near Stonehenge?

A) Tombs for rich people.
B) A Paleolithic cave with paintings.
C) A pit for catching bison.
D) A cliff wall from which the stones were quarried.

11. How are the stones at Stonehenge held together?

A) Rope binding.
B) Cement.
C) Animal fat used as glue.
D) Projections on the uprights fit into holes in the lintels.

12. Stonehenge is arranged around a central axis that points toward __________.

A) The North Star.
B) The rising sun on the summer solstice.
C) The Bermuda Triangle.
D) The Great Pyramid in Egypt.

13. On the summer solstice, the sun rises above the __________ at Stonehenge.

A) Heel stone.
B) Sun stone.
C) Limestone.
D) Rolling stone.

14. Stonehenge may align with the moon and stars. True or false?

15. Stonehenge may have served as a kind of crude __________ for Neolithic farmers.

A) Irrigation system.
B) Animal pen.
C) Corn silo.
D) Calendar.

16. Stonehenge was likely built as a __________.

A) Palace.
B) Temple.
C) Tomb.
D) Amphitheater.

17. How were the crossing lintels likely put into place?

A) Using a steep ramp.
B) Using pulleys.
C) Using a kind of conveyor belt.
D) Using a big catapult.

18. Archaeology can help us answer all of the following questions about Stonehenge except:

A) When was it built?
B) What was the society like that built it?
C) What kind of engineering was used to build it?
D) Why is there such a mystique to Stonehenge?
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