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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The End of All Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Enki become successor of Anu's throne?
(a) He and Anu had a fight.
(b) He did not marry who is father had wanted him to.
(c) He was not Anu's legitimate son.
(d) He disobeyed his father too often.

2. How does Noah/Ziusudra/Utnapishtim attract the gods after the great flood?
(a) Killed a god for a bribe.
(b) Damned all the gods.
(c) Made a fire signal.
(d) Roasts a sacrifice on a mountaintop.

3. Why does Sitchin assume that gods "had flight" or liked to fly?
(a) They were often depicted with wings.
(b) They wore parachutes.
(c) They had special submarines that could fly out of water.
(d) They drew many pictures of birds.

4. While Adapa was developing and before he was born, where did he live?
(a) The belly of a bear.
(b) His spirits waited in the heavens.
(c) An incubator.
(d) In Enlil's wife's womb.

5. Who did El's son Baal (or Elyon) die fighting?
(a) Anu, his father.
(b) Enlil.
(c) His brother, Yam.
(d) Enki, his uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the older planet-gods promise to Marduk if it can defeat Tiamat?

2. What Sumerian god was the Moon planet-god?

3. What planet eventually becomes one of Earth's moons?

4. Along with the sun and the moon, what is the 12th object in the solar system?

5. Who became Anu's lover after 555 B.C.?

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