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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. How large is the base of the Great Pyramid?
(a) 3.1 meters.
(b) 13.1 meters.
(c) 3.1 acres.
(d) 13.1 acres.
2. What did sacred writings offer evidence of in Chapter 41?
(a) Limited technological skills.
(b) Expected advanced technological skills.
(c) Unexpected advanced tehnological skills.
(d) No technological skills.
3. What is the height to perimeter ratio of the Great Pyramid the same as?
(a) A sphere's circumference to area.
(b) A sphere's area to circumference.
(c) A sphere's circumference to radius.
(d) A sphere's radius to circumference.
4. What does the Giza site arrangement mirror?
(a) The sky's appearance in 250 B.C.
(b) The sky's appearance in 4,540 B.C.
(c) The sky's appearance in 10,450 B.C.
(d) The sky's appearance in 8,450 B.C.
5. In Chapter 30, what metaphorical image is an allegory in myths world-wide?
(a) A heavenly house.
(b) A heavenly horse.
(c) A heavenly mill.
(d) A heavenly barn.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Hancock discover about the Great Pyramid's faces?
2. What is Earth's axis tilt called?
3. What is Heliopolis known as?
4. How many gods is Heliopolis associated with?
5. What is one element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
Short Essay Questions
1. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?
2. In Chapter 38, how did the Egyptians manage to drill through granite without the necessary tools?
3. Why did Hancock determine that the ancient Egyptians' astronomical observation and knowledge of solar system mechanics was clearer than assumed in Chapter 42?
4. How did Hancock resolve the absence of any lost continent in Chapter 50?
5. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?
6. What did the founder of modern Egyptology mean in Chapter 34 when he said that the Great Pyramid's builders "thought like men 100 feet tall"?
7. Is Hancock's message in Chapter 52 justified, based on the book as a whole?
8. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?
9. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?
10. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?
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