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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 is a second element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?

2. What was inside the Second Pyramid?

3. What is remarkable about the use of pi in ancient Egypt?

4. How many years does it take for the sun to complete one half-degree shift?

5. In Chapter 30, what metaphorical image is an allegory in myths world-wide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?

2. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

3. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?

4. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?

5. What accounts for differing ideas of when the Sphinx was built?

6. Why did specialists misinterpret or ignore Bauval's discovery as evidence of an ancient civilization?

7. Why did Hancock mention his researcher's resignation in Chapter 50?

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

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

10. What did the founder of modern Egyptology mean in Chapter 34 when he said that the Great Pyramid's builders "thought like men 100 feet tall"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What unsolved mysteries did the author discuss in the book? How did he go about trying to solve them? What appears to be his motivation for uncovering information that might seem trivial to the average person?

Essay Topic 2

How did Hancock think seemingly primitive peoples like the Nazcans managed to develop an understanding of astronomy, as evidenced by the spider drawing that parallels the Orion constellation?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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