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

2. About how many blocks does the Great Pyramid have?
(a) 3.2 thousand.
(b) 2.3 million.
(c) 2.3 thousand.
(d) 3.2 million.

3. In Chapter 36, what is a belief mentioned about the tombs?
(a) They were built by peasants over almost a century.
(b) They were built by pharaohs over almost a century.
(c) They were built by peasants at the same time.
(d) They were built by pharaohs at the same time.

4. To what superhuman are Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl compared?
(a) Palermo Stone.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Isis.
(d) Turin Papyrus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a second element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?

3. What did Hancock wonder about the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?

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

5. What happened to the continent after displacement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

6. What is the cycle of precession?

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

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

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

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

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