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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 frequently do the planets line up in the order, on the same date, that the Mayans predicted the Fifth Sun ends?
2. How many years does it take for the sun to complete one half-degree shift?
3. How is the Egyptians' knowledge protected, according to Chapter 42?
4. What did the author do in Chapter 52?
5. What do the texts of Manetho describe?
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. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?
3. 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"?
4. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?
5. What explains the fluctuations in Egyptian agriculture, as explored in Chapter 46?
6. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?
7. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?
8. Why did specialists misinterpret or ignore Bauval's discovery as evidence of an ancient civilization?
9. Why did the Greeks build the Great Pyramid with engineering accuracy, whose costs seem to far exceed any benefit?
10. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What was Hancock's belief about the meaning ascribed to ancient myths and legends?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Why is the Giza necropolis in Chapter 49 referred to as "a machine that stimulates questions"? How did the author test this theory?
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