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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 created a rivalry between Enlil and Enki?

2. Where did Sitchin think that Homo sapiens were created?

3. Why did Sitchin think that the gods chose to inhabit Earth?

4. What did Sitchin identify the Deluge as?

5. Which god was in charge of Bad-Tibura, the industrial center where Inanna and Utu were born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the gods witness the flood from?

2. How did Sitchin justify his assertions that the gods wanted to use Earth for mines?

3. How did Sitchin describe the approaching planet Marduk?

4. Who were the Anunnaki and why did they become upset with the gods?

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

6. In the Sumerian story of the Great Flood, how did Enki come to the aide of the humankind?

7. When the Nefilim landed on Earth, what age was Earth in?

8. Why is the Nefilim planet considered the 12th planet?

9. How did Enlil create man.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sitchin analyzes a picture of humans surrounding Enki. The humans, Sitchin assumed, were all exactly the same. Sitchin further asserts that Enki wanted man to be different and individual. How does this story of procreation explain the differences in human beings?

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

1. Examine the theme of forgiveness among the Gods.

2. How did this mirror the theme of repentance and forgiveness found in Christianity?

3. How does Sitchin use this to tie Sumerian ritual and culture to Christianity?

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