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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. How many degrees are allocated on the elliptic for each constellation?
2. How many years does it take for the sun to complete one half-degree shift?
3. Who were Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus?
4. How much does the Great Pyramid weigh?
5. What does the Giza site arrangement mirror?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?
2. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?
3. Why did Hancock mention his researcher's resignation in Chapter 50?
4. 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?
5. Is it a coincidence that the Great Pyramid is an accurate scale-model of Earth's northern hemisphere?
6. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?
7. What is eccentricity?
8. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?
9. Why did specialists misinterpret or ignore Bauval's discovery as evidence of an ancient civilization?
10. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did Hancock learn about the Nazca people and their beliefs and values, based on the permanent drawings in the desert they left behind for posterity?
Essay Topic 2
Why were Hancock and others so concerned with the exact dates in which things occurred, and with challenging those dates when new evidence was brought forth?
Essay Topic 3
According to the book, if modern civilization were to be wiped out and discovered in thousands of years, what artifacts would be found?
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