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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. How did Sitchin think that the Nefilim created Homo sapiens?

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

3. What begins to make the gods angry and causes them to decide to inflict their wrath on man (the Great Flood and Deluge)?

4. Where did the gods live among the humans?

5. What did the Babylonian New Year celebrations copy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Mount Ararat?

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

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

6. What was Ziggurats?

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

8. How was the length of life estimated by Sitchin?

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

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

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

1. Answer this question using your own view points:

How could the Nefilim, who Sitchin consider extremely advanced species, be so alike human beings in looks, emotions, and actions?

2. Now, answer the same question as if you were Zecharia Sitchin.

3. Next, examine the differences in the answers. Is your Sitchin's made up answer less rooted in reality?

Essay Topic 3

Sitchin has written many books that have mostly been labeled as pseudoscience by the modern scientific community.

Consider the following questions:

- Why do other scholars consider Sitchin's writing to be pseudoscience?

- Do you consider his arguments to be fake science?

- How could Sitchin better defend his work against other scholars?

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