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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 Heliopolis known as?
(a) City of the Sky.
(b) City of Light.
(c) City of the Gods.
(d) City of the Sun.

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

3. How much does the Great Pyramid weigh?
(a) 6 thousand pounds.
(b) 6 million pounds.
(c) 6 thousand tons.
(d) 6 million tons.

4. How much does the average block of the Great Pyramid weigh?
(a) 200 pounds.
(b) 2.5 tons.
(c) 3.5 tons.
(d) 300 pounds.

5. What is surprising about the limestone megaliths found in the Great Sphinx?
(a) They could not possibly have been moved.
(b) Granite would have been easier to move than limestone.
(c) Limestone was not found anywhere else.
(d) They could have been cut smaller to be moved more easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many blocks does the Great Pyramid have?

2. What is surprising about the granite used to sculpt the Second Pyramid?

3. What is the term for the gravity of the sun and planets exerting influence on the Earth's elliptic orbit?

4. In Chapter 31, what are said to be encoded in the myths?

5. What does the Giza site arrangement mirror?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?

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

8. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?

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

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

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