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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sitchin, the domestication of animals occurred during what time?
(a) Ice Age.
(b) Paleolithic age.
(c) Mesolithic period and the Middle Stone Age.
(d) Neolithic period.

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

3. How does Neptune quiet the sun?
(a) Leaving the sun alone.
(b) By pouring sleep across the universe.
(c) Singing to the rest of the universe.
(d) Asking the other planet gods to soothe the son.

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

5. Who in Hindu was the father of the Hindi 12 gods?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Kash-Yappa.
(c) Anatolia.
(d) Indra.

6. What do the older planet-gods promise to Marduk if it can defeat Tiamat?
(a) Land.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) Rulership.

7. Why were there 12 gods, signs, and months in a year?
(a) Their king believed in the number 12.
(b) The Sumerians had 12 pieces of land separated by water.
(c) There were only 11 of each.
(d) To correspond with the solar system comprised of 12 planets.

8. Why was Anu's son cast from heaven?
(a) For mistreating animals.
(b) For stealing from his father, Anu.
(c) For raping Ninlil (Sud).
(d) For killing his brother Ea.

9. Which planet is Saturn's offspring?
(a) Venus.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Earth.

10. Along with the sun and the moon, what is the 12th object in the solar system?
(a) Nefilim, or Shar.
(b) Uranus.
(c) There is no 12th object.
(d) Pluto.

11. In Chapter 6, what did Sitchin reveal that only the Nefilim needed to know?
(a) How to fly to Earth.
(b) How to create a human.
(c) If a Deluge would cause a catastrophic incident.
(d) Measurements of the distance between stars.

12. Why does Sitchin assume that gods "had flight" or liked to fly?
(a) They drew many pictures of birds.
(b) They wore parachutes.
(c) They were often depicted with wings.
(d) They had special submarines that could fly out of water.

13. What Sumerian word means "the location of the planets?"
(a) Sud.
(b) Me.
(c) Mu.
(d) Lubad.

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

15. Where did An or Anu live?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In his mother's womb.
(c) In the underworld.
(d) In the heavens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many major Sumerian gods are there?

2. In Sitchin's opinion, what did the gods try to help the Babylonian people in the biblical story about the Tower of Babel?

3. When did Copernicus discover that the planets move around the sun?

4. How was Sitchin able to relate Greek civilization to Hebrew civilization and trace the history of Western civilization?

5. Why did Sitchin believe that human beings must have come from some other planet?

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