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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was displaced when the crust shifted?
(a) Vegetation.
(b) An ancient civilization.
(c) Migration.
(d) Exploration.
2. According to Chapter 31, how did the embedding in the Osiris myth occur?
(a) Through early migration.
(b) Accidentally.
(c) Deliberately.
(d) Through early writing.
3. How many years does it take for the axis angle to make a full cycle oscillation across the range?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 4,100.
(c) 41,000.
(d) 40,000.
4. How high is the antechamber ceiling of the Great Pyramid?
(a) 120 feet.
(b) 12 feet.
(c) 12 meters.
(d) 12 yards.
5. What did Hancock assume to be the "missing piece" in Chapter 50?
(a) The humans' evolution from apes.
(b) Clues left by lost civilizations.
(c) Ocean life.
(d) A cataclysmic catastrophe.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a third element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?
2. In Chapter 30, what metaphorical image is an allegory in myths world-wide?
3. How many zodiac constellations are there?
4. To what superhuman are Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl compared?
5. What did Hipparchus discover?
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. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?
4. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?
5. What is the cycle of precession?
6. Why was Bauval's discovery that Orion's three belt stars are not in a straight line significant?
7. What accounts for differing ideas of when the Sphinx was built?
8. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?
9. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?
10. Is Hancock's message in Chapter 52 justified, based on the book as a whole?
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