Working the Calendar: Practice and Ceremony Today

Cumulative exam · 13 questions

Module 6 exam

This exam covers Module 6 and everything before it. You need more than 90% correct to pass and unlock your certificate of completion.

1. 1.The xiuhmolpilli is:(Module 4 review)

   The 52-year binding of the years, ending in the New Fire ceremonyThe five days of rest at the end of the yearA thirteen-day periodThe patron of the day Ollin

2. 2.The accounts of the Suns frame time as:(Module 1 review)

   A single line from creation to an endCyclical and renewableRandom and unknowableFrozen and unchanging

3. 3.A complete Mexika date names:

   Only the tonalpowalli dayThe tonalpowalli day, the position in the veintena, and the year bearerThe trecena and the hourThe Gregorian date and the day sign

4. 4.Why must you always state which correlation you are using?(Module 5 review)

   Because published correlations shift the count by days or weeksBecause the day signs differ between authorsBecause the tonalpowalli length variesBecause Gregorian dates are unreliable

5. 5.What keeps the count alive?

   Publishing it once in a bookSomeone counting it dailyStoring it in an archiveThe correlation itself

6. 6.How many veintenas make up the solar year, and how long is each?(Module 4 review)

   13 of 20 days18 of 20 days20 of 18 days18 of 13 days

7. 7.Rubén Ochoa's correlation ties the turn of the year to:(Module 5 review)

   A fixed Gregorian date each yearThe observed spring equinox sunrise at the Templo MayorThe first full moon of MarchThe heliacal rising of the Pleiades

8. 8.What do the successive construction stages of the Templo Mayor demonstrate?(Module 2 review)

   The alignment was abandoned over timeThe alignment was deliberately maintained across rebuildingsEach stage faced a different directionThe building was never finished

9. 9.Tonalli refers to which cluster of meanings?(Module 1 review)

   Night, cold, silenceDay, heat, destinyWater, rain, stormStone, knife, sacrifice

10. 10.The auguries of Book 4 of the Florentine Codex should be read as:

    Binding prescriptions for behaviourHistorical testimony from a place and time about how day keepers read the daysFictional literatureA Spanish invention with no Nawa source

11. 11.In practice, when is the whole system re-anchored each year?

    At the winter solsticeOn 1 JanuaryThe day after the observed equinox sunrise ties off the old yearAt the start of the nemontemi

12. 12.Which day follows 10 Tochtli?(Module 3 review)

    11 Atl10 Atl11 Itzkwintli1 Atl

13. 13.Why does the count of days run to exactly 260?(Module 3 review)

    20 signs × 13 numbers26 signs × 10 numbersIt matches the length of pregnancy onlyIt was chosen arbitrarily