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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does GIlgamesh loose on his way back from heaven?
(a) A youth-giving plant.
(b) His own soul.
(c) His father's soul.
(d) His jewels for his wife.

2. To Sitchin, the chemical makeup and beginnings of life on Earth imply ____________.
(a) There were more animals than humans in ancient times.
(b) That life may have come from elsewhere.
(c) That Earth is a terrible place to live.
(d) That humans are the greatest life ever created.

3. What did the gods seem to wear to help them fly?
(a) Goggles, weapons, and earphones.
(b) Parachutes.
(c) Wings.
(d) Jet packs.

4. According to Sitchin, who is marked as a follower of God even though he is on Indo-European decent?
(a) Grand Lebanon and Darius.
(b) Xerxes and Darius.
(c) Cyrus and Greece.
(d) Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes.

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

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

7. What Sumerian artifact did Sitchin discover that proves the people's knowledge of the solar system?
(a) A pot with twelve stars.
(b) A vase showing eleven squares.
(c) A portrait showing eleven children.
(d) A seal showing eleven circles.

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

9. Where was the Babylonian creation story written?
(a) On seven tablets.
(b) In a deep cave wall.
(c) On a pot.
(d) On a long scroll.

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

11. What is an apin?
(a) A religious structure.
(b) A type of building.
(c) A pyramidal tower.
(d) A secret code.

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

13. What culture shared similarities to the Hittite gods?
(a) Babylonians.
(b) Canaanites.
(c) Sumerians.
(d) Greeks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What planets did Sitchin think that the Sumerians knew of?

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

3. What did Sitchin credit the Neflim with?

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

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

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