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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. What was rebuilt after the original Sumerian settlements were destroyed?

2. What did Sitchin think that the Nefilim knew would cause a Deluge?

3. What was created before man?

4. What does Sitchin claim about his creation story?

5. After eating Atra-Hasis' (Noah) offering, how did the gods feel about mankind?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Nefilim landed on Earth, what was their first intention to do with the new planet?

2. How did the Nefilim group the planets?

3. How are Anu, Enki, and Enlil all related to one another?

4. What was Ziggurats?

5. To Sitchin, why does the number that the Sumerians consider Earth in the solar system prove that the Sumerians had contact with the Nefilim.

6. How did Adam and Eve's tasting from the Tree of Knowledge give them the ability to procreate?

7. According to Sitchin, what gave the Nefilims access to a lot of information about the solar system?

8. Who suggested that the gods create a worker to tend to the mines?

9. As the gods land on Earth and take a look at what has been done, what did they find?

10. How did Sitchin describe the approaching planet Marduk?

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

Is it depressing that Sitchin did not think that the Sumerians were capable of the advancement on their own?

How is this similar to Western Imperialism that many Western cultures imposed on other cultures?

Is Sitchin sure that the Sumerians could not have been advanced because they were supposedly "primitive" people?

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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