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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. What area did Hades reign?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The land.
(c) The heavens.
(d) The underworld.

2. In Sitchin's estimation, Sumer was an incredibly advanced civilization that lasted for __________.
(a) 700 years.
(b) 900 years.
(c) 650 years.
(d) 1000 years.

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

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

5. What planets did Sitchin think that the Sumerians knew of?
(a) Neptune, Pluto, Uranus,
(b) Pluto, Uranus, Mars.
(c) Mars, Neptune, Pluto.
(d) Neptune, Pluto, Uranus.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Sitchin, what is the asteroid belt?

2. What culture shared similarities to the Hittite gods?

3. Where was the Babylonian creation story written?

4. Sitchin thought that Akkad, a kingdom, predated Assyria by how years?

5. Where was the gods' world?

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