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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hancock discover about the Great Pyramid's faces?
(a) Its faces are perfectly aligned.
(b) Its faces are more visible by night.
(c) Its faces are only visible by day.
(d) Its faces are slightly off in their alignment.

2. What did Hancock note about moving the limestone megaliths found in the Great Sphinx?
(a) A crane capable of moving them was not invented until 1993.
(b) In 2003, only 2 land-based cranes in the world could move them.
(c) In 1993, only 2 land-based cranes in the world could move them.
(d) A crane capable of moving them was not invented until 2003.

3. What did sacred writings offer evidence of in Chapter 41?
(a) No technological skills.
(b) Unexpected advanced tehnological skills.
(c) Limited technological skills.
(d) Expected advanced technological skills.

4. What is a third element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
(a) The need to mobilize resources to rebuild ancient civilizations.
(b) The need to bulldoze modern structures so only old ones remain.
(c) The need to protect future generations from knowledge of the past.
(d) The need to mobilize resources to preserve a remnant for ancestry.

5. How large is the base of the Great Pyramid?
(a) 3.1 meters.
(b) 13.1 acres.
(c) 13.1 meters.
(d) 3.1 acres.

6. In Chapter 36, what is a belief mentioned about the tombs?
(a) They were built by pharaohs at the same time.
(b) They were built by pharaohs over almost a century.
(c) They were built by peasants at the same time.
(d) They were built by peasants over almost a century.

7. What did the Sun God, Ra, do?
(a) Sit on a throne surrounded by lesser gods.
(b) Give orders to lesser gods.
(c) Control darkness and light.
(d) Control the movement of the stars.

8. What did John West claim in Chapter 40?
(a) Specialists do not want others to suspect ancient civilization.
(b) Specialists have not considered ancient civilization.
(c) Specialists suspect the absence of ancient civilization.
(d) Specialists suspect ancient civilization, but ignore it.

9. How many zodiac constellations are there?
(a) 12.
(b) More than 1,000.
(c) More than 100.
(d) 24.

10. Who were Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus?
(a) Kings during the First Dynasty.
(b) Gods.
(c) Kings after the First Dynasty.
(d) Kings before the First Dynasty.

11. What did Hancock's researcher do in Chapter 50?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Asked for a raise.
(c) Made discoveries.
(d) Went on an expedition.

12. What did Jane Sellers discover using myths?
(a) How long cycles take.
(b) A mathematical language.
(c) How the ancient peoples used language.
(d) Meaning in the stars.

13. In Chapter 31, what are said to be encoded in the myths?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Letters.
(d) Pictures.

14. What is the term for the gravity of the sun and planets exerting influence on the Earth's elliptic orbit?
(a) Ecliptic.
(b) Precess.
(c) Eccentricity.
(d) Obliquity.

15. What did Hancock wonder about the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?
(a) Why the pyramid was not used to bury a pharaoh.
(b) Why the pharaoh was buried in a pyramid.
(c) Why the builders used such precision on a tomb.
(d) Why the builders used such imprecision on a tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the height to perimeter ratio of the Great Pyramid the same as?

2. How many years does it take for the sun to shift 60 degrees?

3. What is remarkable about the use of pi in ancient Egypt?

4. What is Heliopolis known as?

5. About how many blocks does the Great Pyramid have?

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