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

2. What did Hancock wonder about the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?
(a) Why the pharaoh was buried in a pyramid.
(b) Why the pyramid was not used to bury a pharaoh.
(c) Why the builders used such precision on a tomb.
(d) Why the builders used such imprecision on a tomb.

3. 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.

4. According to Chapter 32, what is the convergence of global myths evidence of?
(a) Early migration.
(b) A common author.
(c) Many authors.
(d) Early writing.

5. What did the Sun God, Ra, do?
(a) Control the movement of the stars.
(b) Sit on a throne surrounded by lesser gods.
(c) Control darkness and light.
(d) Give orders to lesser gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the Great Pyramid weigh?

2. What is at the base of the Great Pyramid?

3. How are the stars Sirius A and B related?

4. What did Hancock propose in Chapter 52?

5. What theory is ascribed to Charles Hapgood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

2. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?

3. Is Hancock's message in Chapter 52 justified, based on the book as a whole?

4. What is eccentricity?

5. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?

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

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

8. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?

9. Why was Bauval's discovery that Orion's three belt stars are not in a straight line significant?

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

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