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.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

2. 2.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

3. 3.What does the orientation (azimuth) of a temple record?(Module 2 review)

   The wealth of its patronThe day its builders wanted marked on the horizonThe direction of prevailing windsNothing — orientation was arbitrary

4. 4.The codices Borgia, Borbonicus and Telleriano-Remensis are best understood as:(Module 3 review)

   Decorative art with no calendrical useWorking documents of the count of daysSpanish translations of European almanacsModern reconstructions

5. 5.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

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

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

7. 7.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

8. 8.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

9. 9.Which four day signs can bear a year?(Module 4 review)

   Tochtli, Akatl, Tekpatl, KalliZipaktli, Ehekatl, Kalli, KoatlOllin, Kiawitl, Xochitl, AtlMazatl, Ozelotl, Kwawhtli, Malinalli

10. 10.Without the leap-year correction, how long until the count drifts about 20 days from the solar year?(Module 4 review)

    About 20 yearsAbout 52 yearsAbout 83 yearsAbout 260 years

11. 11.Why is the Mexika calendar described as an observational science?(Module 1 review)

    It was copied from a European almanacIt records what the sky actually does as seen from a fixed placeIt ignores the horizon entirelyIt is based only on numerology

12. 12.What keeps the count alive?

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

13. 13.The Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan frames which event between its twin shrines?(Module 2 review)

    A solstice moonsetAn equinox-season sunriseThe heliacal rising of VenusA midnight zenith passage