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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 does the chart on page 472 show?
(a) The South Pole and Antarctica after displacement.
(b) The South Pole and Antarctica before displacement.
(c) The South Pole and Antarctica during displacement.
(d) Displacement at the North Pole.

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

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

4. What is remarkable about the use of pi in ancient Egypt?
(a) It was thought to be discovered later by the Greeks.
(b) It was thought to be discovered later by the Phoenicians.
(c) It was thought to be discovered later by the Romans.
(d) It was thought to be discovered later by the Altruscans.

5. What did the Ancient Egyptians understand well, according to Chapter 42?
(a) The mechanics of the solar system.
(b) The mechanics of geometry.
(c) The mechanics of language.
(d) The mechanics of building structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus?

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

3. How many years is one complete precessional cycle?

4. What did the Sun God, Ra, do?

5. According to Chapter 32, what is the convergence of global myths evidence of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What accounts for differing ideas of when the Sphinx was built?

5. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?

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

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. In Chapter 36, which explanation for the pyramids with empty coffins is the most plausible?

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

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

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