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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 do the documents in Chapter 43 list?
(a) Kings before the First Dynasty.
(b) Kings during the First Dynasty.
(c) Kings after the First Dynasty.
(d) Kings during the Second Dynasty.

2. How high is the entry to the Great Pyramid?
(a) 36 meters.
(b) 3 feet 6 inches.
(c) 36 yards.
(d) 36 feet.

3. In how many years is the cycle of precession completed?
(a) 2,776.
(b) 52,776.
(c) 5,776.
(d) 25,776.

4. What is the term for the gravity of the sun and planets exerting influence on the Earth's elliptic orbit?
(a) Precess.
(b) Eccentricity.
(c) Ecliptic.
(d) Obliquity.

5. What does the Giza site arrangement mirror?
(a) The sky's appearance in 10,450 B.C.
(b) The sky's appearance in 8,450 B.C.
(c) The sky's appearance in 250 B.C.
(d) The sky's appearance in 4,540 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hipparchus discover?

2. What did Hancock note about moving the limestone megaliths found in the Great Sphinx?

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

4. What did Robert Bauval discover?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is it a coincidence that the Great Pyramid is an accurate scale-model of Earth's northern hemisphere?

4. 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?

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

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

7. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?

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

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

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

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