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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
(a) Cosmic or geological cataclysm of pre-industrial civilization.
(b) Cosmic or geological cataclysm of post-industrial civilization.
(c) Cosmic or geological cataclysm of future civilizations.
(d) Cosmic or geological cataclysm of the Ice Age.

2. What is Heliopolis known as?
(a) City of the Gods.
(b) City of Light.
(c) City of the Sky.
(d) City of the Sun.

3. What does the Giza site arrangement mirror?
(a) The sky's appearance in 250 B.C.
(b) The sky's appearance in 8,450 B.C.
(c) The sky's appearance in 10,450 B.C.
(d) The sky's appearance in 4,540 B.C.

4. How are the stars Sirius A and B related?
(a) They line up with other stars.
(b) They form a circle with other stars.
(c) B circles A.
(d) A circles B.

5. In Chapter 36, what did Hancock explore?
(a) Pyramids with the coffins of peasants.
(b) Pyramids with coffins that have been looted.
(c) Pyramids with the coffins of specific pharaohs.
(d) Pyramids with unidentified, empty coffins.

6. What theory is ascribed to Charles Hapgood?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Earth-crust displacement.
(c) Ocean displacement.
(d) Carbon dating.

7. What effect forces the Earth's axis to wobble slowly clockwise while it spins counter-clockwise?
(a) Obliquity.
(b) Eccentricity.
(c) Precess.
(d) Ecliptic.

8. What does the Piri Reis map provide?
(a) Evidence of an ancient civilization with global knowlege.
(b) Evidence of an ancient civilization with celestial knowledge.
(c) Evidence of an ancient civilization with technological skills.
(d) Evidence of an ancient civilization with the ability to move heavy boulders.

9. In how many years is the cycle of precession completed?
(a) 5,776.
(b) 25,776.
(c) 52,776.
(d) 2,776.

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

11. What is described in Chapter 51?
(a) The effect of Earth-crust displacement on the continents.
(b) The effects of ocean displacement on the continents.
(c) The effects of the Ice Age on the continents.
(d) The effects of evolution on the continents.

12. What happened to the continent after displacement?
(a) It was buried under two miles of ice.
(b) It was buried under two yards of ice.
(c) It was buried under two meters of ice.
(d) It was buried under two feet of ice.

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

14. What was discovered about unmapped oceans in Chapter 50?
(a) They definitely could have supported a lost civilization.
(b) They still support a lost civilization.
(c) They probably could have supported a lost civilization.
(d) They could not have supported a lost civilization.

15. What did Hipparchus discover?
(a) Eclipsis.
(b) Eccentricity.
(c) Precession.
(d) Obliquity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fits the Earth-displacement theory in Chapter 50?

2. How much does the average block of the Great Pyramid weigh?

3. How far does the sun migrate in 72 years?

4. What did Hancock's researcher conclude in Chapter 50?

5. How many degrees are allocated on the elliptic for each constellation?

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