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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. From 11,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C., what happened to mankind?

2. Why does Sitchin assume that gods "had flight" or liked to fly?

3. What did the Sumerians believe Pluto was?

4. In Sitchin's estimation, how many years ago was mankind "refreshed"?

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

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

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

4. Why is 12 an important number for Sumerians?

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

6. How did Sitchin present Sumer in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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."

Essay Topic 3

Sitchin inferred that life does not need the sun to exist.

1. Do you agree with this assertion?

2. How does this statement go against what you have previously learned in school?

3. Could you abandon your previous beliefs to agree with Sitchin? Why or why not?

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