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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sitchin, the domestication of animals occurred during what time?

2. How did Zeus gain his power?

3. To Sitchin, the chemical makeup and beginnings of life on Earth imply ____________.

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

5. Who became Anu's lover after 555 B.C.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Sitchin classify the Sumerian gods?

3. How did Sitchin trace the Persians to Babylon and Assyria?

4. What did Sitchin find proof of in the work of early astronomers from Mesopotamia, Hittites, and Babylonia?

5. 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?

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

7. Where did Sitchin think that most of the advancements in technology came from (region and time frame)?

8. Where else does Sitchin say he sees evidence of his version of the creation story?

9. How did Sitchin present Sumer in Chapter 2?

10. What did Ralph Solecki's 1957 discovery

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Sitchin's writing style or tone one of arrogance and smug certainty?

How does a man with little or no scientific education and limited experience translating languages argue with other scholarly experts?

What does this say about Sitchin's personality.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the class and hierarchy system of the Nefilim gods.

How is this system different or similar to the following hierarchy from history:

- Serfdom

- Indian Caste System

- Capitalist societies

Essay Topic 3

Do you think that the Nefilim, as a species, are a symbol for something else?

Did Sitchin really intend to prove that Sumerian alien gods existed or is the 12th Planet a metaphor for a larger mystery?

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