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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's researcher conclude in Chapter 50?
(a) There was no lost civilization.
(b) The lost civilization still exists.
(c) There was definitely a lost civilization.
(d) A lost civilization was supported by a landmass.

2. How many gods is Heliopolis associated with?
(a) 90.
(b) 19.
(c) 9.
(d) 99.

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

4. How many miles per hour does the Earth revolve on its own axis?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 66,600.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 33,600.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hancock propose in Chapter 52?

2. What effect forces the Earth's axis to wobble slowly clockwise while it spins counter-clockwise?

3. How many years does it take for the sun to complete one half-degree shift?

4. What is the "Great Return"?

5. What is the Great Pyramid a scale model of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

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

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

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

5. Is Hancock's message in Chapter 52 justified, based on the book as a whole?

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

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

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

9. Why was Bauval's discovery that Orion's three belt stars are not in a straight line significant?

10. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

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