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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 many years is one complete precessional cycle?
(a) 25,920.
(b) 2,920.
(c) 2,160.
(d) 25,160.
2. When was the last Ice Age meltdown, according to Chapter 50?
(a) 8,000 to 5,000 B.C.
(b) 12,000 to 8,000 B.C.
(c) 15,000 to 8,000 B.C.
(d) 15,000 to 5,000 B.C.
3. What is the only other pyramid in the world, besides the Great Pyramid, to use a variant on pi?
(a) Pyramid of the Sun.
(b) Pyramid of Isis.
(c) Pyramid of Osiris.
(d) Pyramid of the Moon.
4. When is it believed that the Great Pyramid was built?
(a) 5,400 B.C.
(b) 4,000 B.C.
(c) 5,000 B.C.
(d) 4,500 B.C.
5. What effect forces the Earth's axis to wobble slowly clockwise while it spins counter-clockwise?
(a) Ecliptic.
(b) Eccentricity.
(c) Precess.
(d) Obliquity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the Great Pyramid a scale model of?
2. What did Hancock note about moving the limestone megaliths found in the Great Sphinx?
3. What do the texts of Manetho describe?
4. What is a third element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
5. What is described in Chapter 51?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is eccentricity?
2. How did Hancock resolve the absence of any lost continent in Chapter 50?
3. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?
4. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?
5. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?
6. What accounts for differing ideas of when the Sphinx was built?
7. In Chapter 36, which explanation for the pyramids with empty coffins is the most plausible?
8. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?
9. 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?
10. Is Hancock correct in his assertion that what he discovered that has already happened, can happen again?
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