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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 frequently do the planets line up in the order, on the same date, that the Mayans predicted the Fifth Sun ends?
(a) 45,200.
(b) 4,200.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 45,000.

2. What did Hancock propose in Chapter 52?
(a) Specific messages to future generations.
(b) Encoded messages to future generations.
(c) Protecting future generations from knowledge of the past.
(d) Specific messages to be sent to other planets.

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

4. According to Chapter 31, how did the embedding in the Osiris myth occur?
(a) Through early migration.
(b) Through early writing.
(c) Accidentally.
(d) Deliberately.

5. What did sacred writings offer evidence of in Chapter 41?
(a) Expected advanced technological skills.
(b) Unexpected advanced tehnological skills.
(c) No technological skills.
(d) Limited technological skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles per hour does the Earth revolve around the sun?

2. What is the "Great Return"?

3. What is a fourth element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?

4. What is described in Chapter 51?

5. What did Hancock discover about the Great Pyramid's lengths and corner angles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?

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

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

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

6. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

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

8. 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"?

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

10. What did the author mean in Chapter 33 when he referred to the boats at the base of the Great Pyramid as seeming to be of a quality exceeding the presumed need to transport a dead king to heaven?

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