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

2. Surprisingly, what were Greek gods subjected to?
(a) Injury and death.
(b) Killing one another.
(c) Petty emotions.
(d) Resurrection.

3. What is cuneiform?
(a) A uniform worn by the gods.
(b) The Cuni way of life.
(c) A language.
(d) The earliest known form of writing.

4. Sitchin found evidence of prior knowledge of the solar system in what cultures?
(a) Babylonia.
(b) Mesopotamia.
(c) Mesopotamia, Hittites, Babylonia.
(d) Hittites and Babylonia.

5. Sitchin also claimed that the Sumerians were responsible for the invention of ___________ and ___________.
(a) Driving and Singing.
(b) Dancing and Painting.
(c) Weaving and agriculture.
(d) Cooking and Entertaining guests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What planets did Sitchin think that the Sumerians knew of?

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

3. Sitchin believed that the stories of Sumerian gods were _________.

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

5. Why does Sitchin assume that gods "had flight" or liked to fly?

(see the answer key)

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