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.What keeps the count alive?

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

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.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

4. 4.What does xiuhpowalli count?(Module 1 review)

   The 260-day count of daysThe 365-day solar yearThe 52-year bundleThe synodic cycle of Venus

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

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

6. 6.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

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.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

9. 9.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

10. 10.Because the anchor is a sunrise observed at a place, the Mexika day begins:(Module 2 review)

    At midnightAt sunsetAt sunriseAt noon

11. 11.On the day of the observed equinox, what happens to the year?(Module 5 review)

    The new year begins that morningThe year is bundled — tied off — and the new year begins the day afterNothing; the year turns at the solsticeThe nemontemi begin

12. 12.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

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

    11 Atl10 Atl11 Itzkwintli1 Atl