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

2. When is it believed that the Great Pyramid was built?
(a) 4,500 B.C.
(b) 4,000 B.C.
(c) 5,400 B.C.
(d) 5,000 B.C.

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

4. What happened to the continent after displacement?
(a) It was buried under two miles of ice.
(b) It was buried under two yards of ice.
(c) It was buried under two feet of ice.
(d) It was buried under two meters of ice.

5. What does the Piri Reis map provide?
(a) Evidence of an ancient civilization with celestial knowledge.
(b) Evidence of an ancient civilization with the ability to move heavy boulders.
(c) Evidence of an ancient civilization with global knowlege.
(d) Evidence of an ancient civilization with technological skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hancock's researcher conclude in Chapter 50?

2. How many miles per hour does the Earth revolve on its own axis?

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

4. What do the texts of Manetho describe?

5. In Chapter 36, what did Hancock explore?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?

8. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?

9. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

10. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?

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