QUESTIONS

NAME : Gerardo Vladimir Mimbela Cuadros

1. WHEN DID MARIA REICHE BORN? (1.5)

Maria was born on May 15th, 1903, in the city of Dresden, Germany.

2. WHERE DID SHE BORN? (1.5)

in the city of Dresden, Germany.
3. WHAT DID SHE STUDY? (1.5)
In 1924 she studied mathematics, physics, geography and pedagogy in Dresden and
Hamburg.
4. WHEN DID SHE COME TO PERU? (1.5)
In 1932 She traveled to Peru
5. WHO INVITED HER TO COME TO PERU? (1.5)
Cónsul de Alemania en Perú
6. WHY DID THE COUNSUL´S WIFE HIRE MARIA REICHE? (1.5)
to work as a governess to educate the children of the German Consul
7. WHO HELPED MARIA REICHE FOR NOT RETURNING TO GERMANY? (1.5)

was a Supreme Court justice in Lima

8. WHAT WAS THE FIRST FIGURE THAT SHE DISCOVERED? (1.5)

The Spider

9. WHEN DID SHE START HER INVESTIGATIONS IN NASCA? (1.5)

In 1941 She traveled to Nasca and began to investigate the Nasca lines.

10. WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT MARIA REICHE GOT INTERESTED IN THE ARCHEOLOGY INVESTIGATION?

In 1938, she works at the National Museum as a translator and assistant in the

conservation of funerary bales "Paracas" discovered by Dr. Julio C. Tello.

11. WHO WAS MARIA REICHE BEST FRIEND IN PERU? (0.5)

She met Amy Meredith an English woman

12. WHY DID HER SISTER RENATA WANTE TO TAKE BACK MARIA REICHE TO GERMANY?

was a doctor and when she saw the conditions in which María was living, she asked her
to return to her country
13. HOW DID SHE FIND A WORK AS AN ANTROPOLOGIST TRANSLATOR? (1.5)

tea shop that was popular with the intellectuals of the day. It was there that Maria met Julio C. Tello, who

gave her work to do and soon she became very known as the translator of the archaeologists.

14. WHERE DID MARIA MEET JULIO C. TELLO? (1.5)

tea shop that was popular with the intellectuals of the day

15. HOW LONG DID SHE STUDY THE NASCA LINES? (1.5)

ten years

16. WHEN DID SHE DIE?

She died on June 8, 1998 at the General Hospital of the Peruvian Air Force, Miraflores,

Lime.