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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many degrees are allocated on the elliptic for each constellation?
(a) 30.
(b) 72.
(c) 360.
(d) 60.

3. What is a fourth element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
(a) The need to build enclosures to protect survivors and surviving information.
(b) The need to build better computers to protect surviving information.
(c) The need to build enclosures to protect surviving structures.
(d) The need to identify specific individuals who should be protected from harm.

4. What is at the base of the Great Pyramid?
(a) Gods.
(b) Cats.
(c) Boats.
(d) Snakes.

5. How frequently do the planets line up in the order, on the same date, that the Mayans predicted the Fifth Sun ends?
(a) 45,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 45,200.
(d) 4,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author do in Chapter 52?

2. Who were Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus?

3. What is Earth's axis tilt called?

4. How many zodiac constellations are there?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Hancock determine that the ancient Egyptians' astronomical observation and knowledge of solar system mechanics was clearer than assumed in Chapter 42?

2. What did the author mean in Chapter 33 when he referred to the boats at the base of the Great Pyramid as seeming to be of a quality exceeding the presumed need to transport a dead king to heaven?

3. What explains the fluctuations in Egyptian agriculture, as explored in Chapter 46?

4. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?

5. Why did Hancock mention his researcher's resignation in Chapter 50?

6. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?

7. In Chapter 38, how did the Egyptians manage to drill through granite without the necessary tools?

8. How did Hancock resolve the absence of any lost continent in Chapter 50?

9. Why did specialists misinterpret or ignore Bauval's discovery as evidence of an ancient civilization?

10. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?

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