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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 the Ancient Egyptians understand well, according to Chapter 42?
(a) The mechanics of building structures.
(b) The mechanics of the solar system.
(c) The mechanics of geometry.
(d) The mechanics of language.

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

3. How many years does it take for the sun to shift 60 degrees?
(a) 4,320.
(b) 2,160.
(c) 36.
(d) 25,920.

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

5. What did Hipparchus discover?
(a) Precession.
(b) Eccentricity.
(c) Obliquity.
(d) Eclipsis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author do in Chapter 52?

2. Who were Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus?

3. When is it believed that the Great Pyramid was built?

4. What is the height to perimeter ratio of the Great Pyramid the same as?

5. How much does the average block of the Great Pyramid weigh?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?

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

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

4. What is the cycle of precession?

5. 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?

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

7. What explains the fluctuations in Egyptian agriculture, as explored in Chapter 46?

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

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

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

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