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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 man created with the intention of doing?

2. After eating the fruit, what do Adam and Eve become aware of?

3. What type of planet was Shar?

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

5. What did the Babylonian New Year celebrations copy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Enlil decide not to prepare the humans for the deluge and great flood?

5. How did Sitchin describe the approaching planet Marduk?

6. Why did the Nefilim decide to go back to Earth?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Compare Sitchin's story of Noah to the following:

- Christian Great Flood story

- The Great Flood from the Torah

2. How did Sitchin relate all three stories to one another?

3. Why did Sitchin think it is important to relate the stories?

4. How does this create validity for Sitchin's argument? Do you believe that this increases Sitchin's chances of gaining followers?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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