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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What Sumerian word means "the location of the planets?"
(a) Lubad.
(b) Me.
(c) Mu.
(d) Sud.
2. Sitchin also claimed that the Sumerians were responsible for the invention of ___________ and ___________.
(a) Dancing and Painting.
(b) Weaving and agriculture.
(c) Cooking and Entertaining guests.
(d) Driving and Singing.
3. What type of orbit is the above planet on?
(a) An oblong orbit.
(b) A square orbit.
(c) An elliptical orbit.
(d) A circular orbit.
4. Sitchin revealed that who occupied Israel, Lebanon, and Syria in Chapter 3?
(a) The Canaanites.
(b) Greeks and Romans.
(c) Babylonians.
(d) Sumerians.
5. Gravitational pull from what planet pulls Marduk?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Uranus.
6. Why don't stars have gods?
(a) Stars are hostile environments.
(b) Stars are too far away for godly visits.
(c) Stars have their own gods.
(d) Stars are unlivable places.
7. Where was the Babylonian creation story written?
(a) In a deep cave wall.
(b) On seven tablets.
(c) On a long scroll.
(d) On a pot.
8. In 12TH PLANET, what was Zecharia Sitchin's main argument?
(a) Sumerian myths of a pantheon of gods are facts.
(b) There were (at one time) 15 planets in our solar system.
(c) He was a descendant of Jesus.
(d) We are all aliens.
9. 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) Fictionalized.
(d) A community of pretentious people.
10. In chapter five, what Sumerian ancient art did Sitchin see depicted?
(a) Spaceships.
(b) Rocket ships.
(c) Planes.
(d) Helicopters.
11. What Hittite god was like the Greek god Zeus?
(a) Tushub.
(b) Tishub.
(c) Tashub.
(d) Teshuub.
12. How was Sitchin able to relate Greek civilization to Hebrew civilization and trace the history of Western civilization?
(a) Through ancient artifacts.
(b) Through similarities in language.
(c) The ancient Christian Bibles.
(d) The Torah.
13. Where does Gilgamesh rule?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Ur.
(c) Uruk.
(d) Sumer.
14. Besides gracing the Sumerian people with his presence, what else did Sitchin bestow upon the Sumerian people?
(a) The right of rulership and kingship.
(b) Education and schools.
(c) The ability to write great stories.
(d) Creations of fish.
15. What does the word "Nefilim" mean?
(a) The giants.
(b) Our friends from Neptune.
(c) Those who fell to Earth.
(d) The gods among us.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Sitchin believe that human beings must have come from some other planet?
2. This planet comes near earth every 3600 years.
3. Along with the sun and the moon, what is the 12th object in the solar system?
4. When did Copernicus discover that the planets move around the sun?
5. How did Sitchin interpret the Babylonian creation story?
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