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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 the term for the gravity of the sun and planets exerting influence on the Earth's elliptic orbit?
2. What did the author do in Chapter 52?
3. What did Christian Eusebius discover about Manetho's texts and the Bible?
4. What is a fourth element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
5. What did Hancock's researcher do in Chapter 50?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?
2. In Chapter 39, why do you think the Egyptians didn't cut the limestone into smaller pieces to make it easier to move?
3. 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?
4. Is Hancock correct in his assertion that what he discovered that has already happened, can happen again?
5. Why was Bauval's discovery that Orion's three belt stars are not in a straight line significant?
6. Is Hancock's message in Chapter 52 justified, based on the book as a whole?
7. What is eccentricity?
8. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?
9. In Chapter 36, which explanation for the pyramids with empty coffins is the most plausible?
10. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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