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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. About how many blocks does the Great Pyramid have?
(a) 3.2 thousand.
(b) 3.2 million.
(c) 2.3 thousand.
(d) 2.3 million.

2. What is the only other pyramid in the world, besides the Great Pyramid, to use a variant on pi?
(a) Pyramid of the Moon.
(b) Pyramid of Isis.
(c) Pyramid of the Sun.
(d) Pyramid of Osiris.

3. Who is Jane Sellers?
(a) A socio-astronomer.
(b) An archaeo-astronomer.
(c) An explorer.
(d) A geologist-astronomer.

4. How high is the antechamber ceiling of the Great Pyramid?
(a) 120 feet.
(b) 12 meters.
(c) 12 feet.
(d) 12 yards.

5. What do the texts of Manetho describe?
(a) Pharoahs ruling the Nile Valley.
(b) Gods punishing everyday Egyptians.
(c) Gods punishing pharoahs.
(d) Gods ruling the Nile Valley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How high is the entry to the Great Pyramid?

3. What is described in Chapter 51?

4. What did Hancock's researcher conclude in Chapter 50?

5. In Chapter 36, what did Hancock explore?

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

4. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?

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

6. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

7. What is eccentricity?

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

9. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?

10. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?

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