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

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

3. What did the Sumerians know the exact dates of in Chapter 6?
(a) When rain would come.
(b) The shifts in the houses of the zodiac.
(c) Their gods birthdays.
(d) Future events that would happen.

4. 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) Fictionalized.
(b) More ancient than 4600 years old.
(c) A community of pretentious people.
(d) Very motivated people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sumerian belief, who may go to heaven?

2. Who excavated a cave called Shanidar in Kurdish territory in 1957?

3. What is cuneiform?

4. How many base numbers were in the Sumerian number system?

5. Where was the Babylonian creation story written?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sitchin present Sumer in Chapter 2?

3. Why is 12 an important number for Sumerians?

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

5. Describe the Greek god Zeus and how he came to power.

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

7. What did Ralph Solecki's 1957 discovery

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

9. Why was the number 12 extremely important to the Nefilim?

10. How did Sitchin classify the Sumerian gods?

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