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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 did Hancock explore the Great Pyramid in Chapter 37?
2. What is at the base of the Great Pyramid?
3. How high is the antechamber ceiling of the Great Pyramid?
4. What is a second element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
5. In Chapter 38, how did Hancock observe the Great Pyramid?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did Hancock determine that the ancient Egyptians' astronomical observation and knowledge of solar system mechanics was clearer than assumed in Chapter 42?
3. Is Hancock correct in his assertion that what he discovered that has already happened, can happen again?
4. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?
5. Why did specialists misinterpret or ignore Bauval's discovery as evidence of an ancient civilization?
6. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?
7. What is the cycle of precession?
8. In Chapter 38, how did the Egyptians manage to drill through granite without the necessary tools?
9. Is it a coincidence that the Great Pyramid is an accurate scale-model of Earth's northern hemisphere?
10. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does it mean that the ancient Egyptians were using pi in their architectural structures long before it was officially discovered? Does this notion support the possibility that many ancient peoples had skills or technology that were officially invented later, or is a mathematical construct a different type of ability?
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
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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