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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. How many base numbers were in the Sumerian number system?
(a) 30.
(b) 100.
(c) 60.
(d) 10.

2. Sitchin thought that Akkad, a kingdom, predated Assyria by how years?
(a) 5000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1000.

3. What does the word "Nefilim" mean?
(a) The gods among us.
(b) Those who fell to Earth.
(c) Our friends from Neptune.
(d) The giants.

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

5. What was engraved on the Pioneer 10?
(a) A portrait of Inanna.
(b) Human beings and planets all in a solar system.
(c) How to build a space craft.
(d) Pictures of identical humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Sumerian god was the Earth planet-god?

2. What planets were a part of seventh heaven?

3. In Sitchin's opinion, what did the gods try to help the Babylonian people in the biblical story about the Tower of Babel?

4. Sitchin also claimed that the Sumerians were responsible for the invention of ___________ and ___________.

5. What brings the Greeks in contact with the Persians in 331 B.C.?

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