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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Epic of Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which planet is Saturn's offspring?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Earth.
(c) Venus.
(d) Neptune.

2. In Sumerian belief, who may go to heaven?
(a) Plants.
(b) No one goes to heaven.
(c) Animals.
(d) Men and gods.

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

4. How did Zeus gain his power?
(a) Killed Hades.
(b) Defeated a serpentine with his two brothers.
(c) Defeated his own father.
(d) Killed all the other gods.

5. Which god replaced Hades in the 12 ruling Olympian Gods?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Hera.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Mercury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because Sumerian seemed to have the first schools, a 2-house legislature, historian, written code of law, and legal reform, Sitchin thought that Sumer must have been ______.

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

3. Sitchin revealed that who occupied Israel, Lebanon, and Syria in Chapter 3?

4. Before Copernicus, what did the Greeks and Romans think about the universe?

5. Who was the engineer responsible for man's creation?

(see the answer key)

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