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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Landing on Planet Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does GIlgamesh loose on his way back from heaven?
(a) His own soul.
(b) A youth-giving plant.
(c) His jewels for his wife.
(d) His father's soul.

2. What number do we now believe Earth to be (counting from the sun)?
(a) 12th.
(b) 3rd.
(c) 2nd.
(d) 7th.

3. Sitchin believed that the stories of Sumerian gods were _________.
(a) Made up by kings and queens.
(b) Specific accounts of the creation of planets.
(c) Challenged by other cultures.
(d) Not at all true.

4. What brings the Greeks in contact with the Persians in 331 B.C.?
(a) Ur the conqueror.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Alexander the Macedonian conquered the Persians.

5. Why was Anu's son cast from heaven?
(a) For mistreating animals.
(b) For stealing from his father, Anu.
(c) For raping Ninlil (Sud).
(d) For killing his brother Ea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Sumerian artifact did Sitchin discover that proves the people's knowledge of the solar system?

2. To Sitchin, what is the asteroid belt?

3. What was engraved on the Pioneer 10?

4. In Sumerian belief, who may go to heaven?

5. In Chapter 4, which god (and son of Anu) was revealed to have created man and ruled from Nippur?

(see the answer key)

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