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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was another of Hancock's theories about the maps in Chapter 2?

2. What is the "foam of the sea"?

3. What do the maps in Chapter 2 show?

4. What does Lake Titicaca contain?

5. What are Nazca lines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tends to accompany stories of ice ages?

2. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

3. Is the theory of Earth-crust displacement plausible?

4. In the Introduction, what was Hancock trying to determine?

5. How could the same type of vessel used in the Nile also appear in Lake Titicaca?

6. Why is it believed that the Tiahuanaco culture was able to migrate after a catastrophe, whereas so many other cultures were wiped out by them?

7. What is the god Quetzalcoatl known for?

8. What happened to the hardy, cold-adapted animals during the Ice Age?

9. In Chapter 26, what is relayed about the history of modern man?

10. According to Chapter 27, what parts of the world were submerged by flooding during the Ice Age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the ramifications of Hancock's discoveries about the history of Antarctica and the South Pole? How do they relate to contemporary environmental concerns?

Essay Topic 2

Why is the Giza necropolis in Chapter 49 referred to as "a machine that stimulates questions"? How did the author test this theory?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 32, the author posed the theory that the convergence of global myths and ancient stories throughout the Earth is evidence of a common author. How did he characterize this author?

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