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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Fictionalized.
(c) A community of pretentious people.
(d) More ancient than 4600 years old.

4. Who did Iannna marry?
(a) Her own brother, Ea.
(b) Enki's son, Enlil.
(c) No one.
(d) Enki's son, Dumuzi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Surprisingly, what were Greek gods subjected to?

2. What brings the Greeks in contact with the Persians in 331 B.C.?

3. Sitchin thought that Akkad, a kingdom, predated Assyria by how years?

4. WHat is the Babylonian name for sun?

5. What Sumerian word means "the location of the planets?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact does Aphrodite, the goddess of love, have on the gods and goddesses for ancient Greece?

2. What is interesting about the Hittite gods and culture?

3. Summarize Sitchin's theory on the creation of the solar system.

4. Why is Sitchin so sure that human life could not have begun on Earth?

5. How did humans attempt to go to the heavens and see the gods.

6. What does Sitchin believe existed before the language Akkadian?

7. Enki and Enlil were brothers and sons of Anu. Describe their personalities.

8. Who is Anu?

9. Where did Sitchin believe the Greek gods came from?

10. What was the literal translation of "me" that Sitchin develops?

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