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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 excavated a cave called Shanidar in Kurdish territory in 1957?
(a) Ralph Soleck.
(b) Robert Saul.
(c) Randal Sole
(d) Randolph Samms.

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

3. What Sumerian word means "the location of the planets?"
(a) Lubad.
(b) Sud.
(c) Mu.
(d) Me.

4. 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 sea.
(d) To the underworld.

5. How does Neptune quiet the sun?
(a) By pouring sleep across the universe.
(b) Singing to the rest of the universe.
(c) Asking the other planet gods to soothe the son.
(d) Leaving the sun alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Sumerians believe Pluto was?

2. What was found in Shanidar cave?

3. Who did El's son Baal (or Elyon) die fighting?

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 ______.

5. In Sitchin's opinion, what did the gods try to help the Babylonian people in the biblical story about the Tower of Babel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sitchin think it was possible for astrologists to be wrong in their assertion that there are only eight planets in the solar system?

2. What subjects does the 12TH PLANET cover?

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

4. Why did Sitchin think that there were 12 planets in the solar system?

5. Who is Anu?

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

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

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

9. What did Sitchin think the angels of the Bible really were?

10. Name some of the inventions that Sitchin believed the Sumerians were responsible for.

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