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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 many years does it take for the sun to shift 60 degrees?
(a) 2,160.
(b) 25,920.
(c) 4,320.
(d) 36.

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

3. Who was Ramesses II?
(a) A Pharaoh before the time of the Biblical Exodus.
(b) The father of Seti I.
(c) The pharaoh buried in the Seti I Temple.
(d) The pharaoh during the time of the Biblical Exodus.

4. What did the author do in Chapter 52?
(a) Reassure readers that the calamities will not happen again.
(b) Stir up controversy about whether future calamities will occur.
(c) Celebrate mankind's attempts to prevent further calamities.
(d) Warn mankind about the dangers of ignoring warnings.

5. What did Jane Sellers discover using myths?
(a) How long cycles take.
(b) How the ancient peoples used language.
(c) A mathematical language.
(d) Meaning in the stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In how many years is the cycle of precession completed?

2. What is the Earth's orbit plane extended outward called?

3. How did Hancock explore the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?

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

5. How large is the base of the Great Pyramid?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the cycle of precession?

4. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

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

6. Is Hancock correct in his assertion that what he discovered that has already happened, can happen again?

7. 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"?

8. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?

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

10. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

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