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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Kingship on Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Adapa was developing and before he was born, where did he live?
(a) His spirits waited in the heavens.
(b) An incubator.
(c) In Enlil's wife's womb.
(d) The belly of a bear.

2. When did Copernicus discover that the planets move around the sun?
(a) 1400s.
(b) 1500s.
(c) 1700s.
(d) 1600s.

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

4. What created a rivalry between Enlil and Enki?
(a) Enlil's take over of Earth.
(b) Enlil slept with Enki's wife.
(c) Enlil betrayed his brother.
(d) Enlil beat his brother.

5. In Etana's stories, what does Sitchin relate to an eagle?
(a) Another bird.
(b) Pilots.
(c) Air plane engineers.
(d) Astronauts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Hindu was the father of the Hindi 12 gods?

2. What did the gods seem to wear to help them fly?

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. Where were early grains and planets brought from?

5. What Sumerian god was the Moon planet-god?

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