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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. How did Sitchin reinterpret that Sumerian word "Mu"?

2. What area did Hades reign?

3. Why did Sitchin believe that human beings must have come from some other planet?

4. Who was Yam resurrected by?

5. In Chapter 4, which god (and son of Anu) was revealed to have created man and ruled from Nippur?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Marduk feel pressure from the other planets in the solar system?

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

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

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

8. How did Sitchin present Sumer in Chapter 2?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Why was it important for ancient communities to create gods and goddesses?

2. How did gods, goddesses and rituals help people to understand their lives and the mysterious world surrounding them?

Essay Topic 2

The Mayans were another ancient culture that left behind relics of their society. Many people visit Mayan ruins and study Mayan art, architecture, and relics.

1. DId the Mayans have any knowledge of the Nefilim? Why or Why not?

2. How do you think Sitchin would have answered this question.

Essay Topic 3

1. Sitchin described the gods as being able to eat, breathe, and die.

2. Explain how these gods different from Christian, Islamic, and Jewish gods who cannot be healed.

3. How does this make Sitchin's gods more relatable? How does the realization of death among many people cause them to become more "human."

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