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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 does Sitchin claim about his creation story?

2. Who is Adapa?

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

4. What suggested that man was created from one mold?

5. What does Sitchin associate to a circle in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Enlil furious that Utnapishtim and his family survived the Great Flood?

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

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

4. What was Enlil's human son named?

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

6. Why did Sitchin equate the planet Marduk with images of a winged globe in ancient artwork?

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

8. How long do the Nefilim live and how often do they visit?

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

10. Does Sitchin agree with the validity of animal evolution over the centuries?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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