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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who excavated a cave called Shanidar in Kurdish territory in 1957?
(a) Randal Sole
(b) Randolph Samms.
(c) Robert Saul.
(d) Ralph Soleck.

2. What did the Sumerians believe Pluto was?
(a) A wayward planet.
(b) A star.
(c) A very mad planet-god.
(d) A moon in Shar's orbit.

3. What type of orbit is the above planet on?
(a) A circular orbit.
(b) A square orbit.
(c) An oblong orbit.
(d) An elliptical orbit.

4. Sitchin believed that the stories of Sumerian gods were _________.
(a) Specific accounts of the creation of planets.
(b) Not at all true.
(c) Challenged by other cultures.
(d) Made up by kings and queens.

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

6. Gravitational pull from what planet pulls Marduk?
(a) Neptune.
(b) Saturn.
(c) Uranus.
(d) Pluto.

7. What Hittite god was like the Greek god Zeus?
(a) Tashub.
(b) Tushub.
(c) Teshuub.
(d) Tishub.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who was the Greek Uranus overthrown by?
(a) Sumer.
(b) Cronos.
(c) Horites.
(d) Teshub.

14. WHat is the Babylonian name for sun?
(a) Sel.
(b) Su.
(c) Apsire.
(d) Apsu.

15. What was found in Shanidar cave?
(a) 44,000 year old skeletons of a family.
(b) 100,000 year old skeletons of a family.
(c) 87,000 year old skeletons of a family.
(d) 55,000 year old skeletons of a family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture shared similarities to the Hittite gods?

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

3. What is "Mu" often mistranslated as?

4. Where does Gilgamesh rule?

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

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