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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 12TH PLANET, what was Zecharia Sitchin's main argument?
(a) There were (at one time) 15 planets in our solar system.
(b) We are all aliens.
(c) Sumerian myths of a pantheon of gods are facts.
(d) He was a descendant of Jesus.

2. To Sitchin, the chemical makeup and beginnings of life on Earth imply ____________.
(a) There were more animals than humans in ancient times.
(b) That Earth is a terrible place to live.
(c) That life may have come from elsewhere.
(d) That humans are the greatest life ever created.

3. Who are the Neflim?
(a) A vicious type of prehistoric animal.
(b) An advanced being that inhabited Shar.
(c) The people of Nefia.
(d) A lizard.

4. What did the gods seem to wear to help them fly?
(a) Jet packs.
(b) Wings.
(c) Parachutes.
(d) Goggles, weapons, and earphones.

5. 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 ______.
(a) Very motivated people.
(b) More ancient than 4600 years old.
(c) A community of pretentious people.
(d) Fictionalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an apin?

2. What area did Hades reign?

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

4. How did Sitchin interpret the Babylonian creation story?

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

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