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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 much does the average block of the Great Pyramid weigh?
(a) 3.5 tons.
(b) 300 pounds.
(c) 200 pounds.
(d) 2.5 tons.
2. What fits the Earth-displacement theory in Chapter 50?
(a) A map of Antarctica.
(b) An outline of the South Pole.
(c) A map of the South Pole.
(d) An outline about Antarctica.
3. What did Hipparchus discover?
(a) Precession.
(b) Eclipsis.
(c) Eccentricity.
(d) Obliquity.
4. How much does the Great Pyramid weigh?
(a) 6 million pounds.
(b) 6 thousand pounds.
(c) 6 thousand tons.
(d) 6 million tons.
5. What did Hancock propose in Chapter 52?
(a) Specific messages to be sent to other planets.
(b) Protecting future generations from knowledge of the past.
(c) Encoded messages to future generations.
(d) Specific messages to future generations.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the Sun God, Ra, do?
2. What did the author do in Chapter 52?
3. What effect forces the Earth's axis to wobble slowly clockwise while it spins counter-clockwise?
4. What did Hancock wonder about the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?
5. How many zodiac constellations are there?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is Hancock correct in his assertion that what he discovered that has already happened, can happen again?
2. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?
3. Why did Hancock mention his researcher's resignation in Chapter 50?
4. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.
5. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?
6. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?
7. How did Hancock resolve the absence of any lost continent in Chapter 50?
8. Why was Bauval's discovery that Orion's three belt stars are not in a straight line significant?
9. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?
10. 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"?
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