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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Piri Reis Map precisely locate?

2. According to Chapter 27, what accompanied the Ice Age?

3. How many years of fossilized records of evolution exist?

4. Where did the story of Gilgamesh take place?

5. When was the Oronteus Finaeus Map drawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 27, what happened to animals during the Ice Age?

2. In the Introduction, what was Hancock trying to determine?

3. Why are the Nazca lines so significant?

4. Should the Olmecs' homeland have been destroyed by oil interests?

5. What is the god Quetzalcoatl known for?

6. What tends to accompany stories of ice ages?

7. How did the ancients come upon their use of pi?

8. In Chapter 14, how is the god Quetzlcoatl characterized?

9. How and why were the Nazca able to accomplish what they did with their lines?

10. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do deities play in the book? In what different places do you find deities that are similar in appearance and action? What do they tell us about ancient religion?

Essay Topic 2

Hancock noted that the granite portcullis in the Great Pyramid (pictured on page 329) seems to serve no purpose other than to make an explorer wonder why and how huge stones are moved and installed in narrow passages. Did he consider any other possible purposes? What did he ultimately conclude?

Essay Topic 3

What did Hancock learn about the Nazca people and their beliefs and values, based on the permanent drawings in the desert they left behind for posterity?

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