The 12th Planet Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The 12th Planet Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings the Greeks in contact with the Persians in 331 B.C.?
(a) Ur the conqueror.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Alexander the Macedonian conquered the Persians.

2. How did Zeus gain his power?
(a) Killed Hades.
(b) Defeated a serpentine with his two brothers.
(c) Defeated his own father.
(d) Killed all the other gods.

3. Sitchin revealed that who occupied Israel, Lebanon, and Syria in Chapter 3?
(a) Babylonians.
(b) Sumerians.
(c) The Canaanites.
(d) Greeks and Romans.

4. Where does Enki's Adapa try to go the gain eternal life?
(a) To the underworld.
(b) To a god higher than Anu.
(c) To Anu.
(d) To the sea.

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

6. Who did El's son Baal (or Elyon) die fighting?
(a) Anu, his father.
(b) His brother, Yam.
(c) Enlil.
(d) Enki, his uncle.

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

8. In Chapter 4, which god (and son of Anu) was revealed to have created man and ruled from Nippur?
(a) Ea.
(b) Sud.
(c) Ninlil.
(d) Enlil.

9. Who was Marduk?
(a) The father of Zeus.
(b) A mean ruler of Babylon.
(c) A cruel father of Anu.
(d) He became the primary god of Babylon.

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

11. Where does Gilgamesh rule?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Uruk.
(c) Ur.
(d) Sumer.

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

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

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

15. In Sitchin's estimation, how many years ago was mankind "refreshed"?
(a) 80,000 years ago.
(b) 11,000 years ago.
(c) 6,000 years ago.
(d) 20,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Hittite god was like the Greek god Zeus?

2. What Sumerian artifact did Sitchin discover that proves the people's knowledge of the solar system?

3. Gravitational pull from what planet pulls Marduk?

4. According to Sitchin, the domestication of animals occurred during what time?

5. Why does Sitchin assume that gods "had flight" or liked to fly?

(see the answer keys)

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