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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Sitchin's estimation, Sumer was an incredibly advanced civilization that lasted for __________.
(a) 700 years.
(b) 650 years.
(c) 900 years.
(d) 1000 years.

2. Who was Yam resurrected by?
(a) Anat.
(b) Teshub.
(c) Cronos.
(d) Horites.

3. Sitchin thought that the uses of this substance was evidence of advanced knowledge of chemistry and medicine, including brain surgery.
(a) Natural gas.
(b) Petroleum.
(c) Oil.
(d) Jelly.

4. Where was the gods' world?
(a) The otherworld.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The solar system.
(d) The underworld.

5. This planet comes near earth every 3600 years.
(a) Shir.
(b) Shrie.
(c) Share.
(d) Shar.

6. Which god replaced Hades in the 12 ruling Olympian Gods?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hera.
(d) Mercury.

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

8. In the Sudden Civilization, what does Sitchin use as a historical source to prove Sumer's relationships with its Gods?
(a) The Koran.
(b) Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints Bible.
(c) The Christian Bible.
(d) The Torah.

9. How did Sitchin reinterpret that Sumerian word "Mu"?
(a) "Raidant."
(b) "Shiny."
(c) "To travel."
(d) "To fall."

10. What planet drew Marduk into the solar system?
(a) Mars.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Saturn.
(d) Uranus.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Sumerians know the exact dates of in Chapter 6?

2. What did Sitchin credit the Neflim with?

3. What type of orbit is the above planet on?

4. In Chapter 4, which god (and son of Anu) was revealed to have created man and ruled from Nippur?

5. What is "Mu" often mistranslated as?

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