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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. When did the Orion constellation appear in Egyptian chant?

2. In what forms did the god of the Andes exist?

3. When was the Antarctic ice cap discovered?

4. Where did the story of Gilgamesh take place?

5. What did Gerald Kremer show in a 1569 Atlas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?

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

4. Describe the god Viracocha's appearance.

5. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?

6. How were the findings of the Oronteus Finaeus Map verified?

7. Describe how the Andes viewed Viracocha.

8. In the Introduction, why did Hancock study the Admiral Piri Reis Map?

9. In Chapter 14, how is the god Quetzlcoatl characterized?

10. How did the ancients come upon their use of pi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do deities play in the book? In what different places do you find deities that are similar in appearance and action? What do they tell us about ancient religion?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012, and many other ancient myths contain a similar warning. What did Hancock think we should do with this information?

Essay Topic 3

Is this book more about the Earth itself or the civilizations who have populated it? Is there a relationship between the two, or are they separate issues that the author explored in his quest to solve mysteries?

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