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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 did Hipparchus discover?
(a) Precession.
(b) Obliquity.
(c) Eclipsis.
(d) Eccentricity.

2. In Chapter 31, what are said to be encoded in the myths?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Letters.

3. In Chapter 36, what is a belief mentioned about the tombs?
(a) They were built by pharaohs at the same time.
(b) They were built by peasants over almost a century.
(c) They were built by peasants at the same time.
(d) They were built by pharaohs over almost a century.

4. What does the Piri Reis map provide?
(a) Evidence of an ancient civilization with global knowlege.
(b) Evidence of an ancient civilization with celestial knowledge.
(c) Evidence of an ancient civilization with the ability to move heavy boulders.
(d) Evidence of an ancient civilization with technological skills.

5. What is the height to perimeter ratio of the Great Pyramid the same as?
(a) A sphere's circumference to radius.
(b) A sphere's circumference to area.
(c) A sphere's area to circumference.
(d) A sphere's radius to circumference.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the Great Pyramid weigh?

2. According to Chapter 32, what is the convergence of global myths evidence of?

3. Who was Ramesses II?

4. What did Jane Sellers discover using myths?

5. What was displaced when the crust shifted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the obliquity of the ecliptic?

2. Is it a coincidence that the Great Pyramid is an accurate scale-model of Earth's northern hemisphere?

3. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?

4. 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"?

5. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?

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

7. 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?

8. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?

9. Why did Hancock determine that the ancient Egyptians' astronomical observation and knowledge of solar system mechanics was clearer than assumed in Chapter 42?

10. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

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