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- 1. Multiple Choice
What civilization is the setting for the Epic Tale of Gilgamesh?
Sumerian
Babylonian
Greek
Assyrian
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who was Gilgamesh in real life?
King of Babylon
King of Uruk
King of Burger
King of Kong
- 3. Multiple Choice
In the story, why do the gods send Gilgamesh a challenger?
Because they grow scared of Gilgamesh
Because they want to replace Gilgamesh
Because he is bored and is mistreating the people of Uruk
Because the gods think it would be fun
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the wild man that the gods send to challenge Gilgamesh?
Murdok
Enkidu
Shamash
Humbaba
- 5. Multiple Choice
What happens when Enkidu and Gilgamesh fight?
They fight to a tie and the become best friends
They end up destroying the city of Uruk
Enkidu kills Gilgmesh
They both end up dying in the fight
- 6. Multiple Choice
Where do the two friends travel in order to fight the monster Humbaba?
The city of Babylon
The Cedar Forest
The Dry Desert
The Euphrates River
- 7. Multiple Choice
True or false: The gods decided that one of the two heroes must die and they kill Enkidu.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does Gilgamesh go in search of in the latter part of the story?
The meaning of life
Eternal life
The Holy Grail
The Secret Gardens of Babylon
- 9. Multiple Choice
True or False: Gilgamesh learns how to defeat death by the end of the story.
True
False
- 10. Multiple Choice
From what god did Gilgamesh get his courage?
Murdok
Shamash
Ninsun
Adad
- 11. Multiple Choice
True or False: Gilgamesh was written in Akkadian, the language of the Babylonians at the time it was recorded.
True
False
- 12. Multiple Choice
True or False: The story was first translated by archaeologist George Smith in 2019.
True
False
- 13. Multiple Choice
True or False: Very few tablets telling the story of Gilgamesh have been recovered
True
False
- 14. Multiple Choice
Gilgamesh got his beauty from the sun god
Adad
Enkidu
Shamash
Humbaba.
- 15. Multiple Choice
What falls from heaven in Gilgamesh's dream?
a meteorite or shooting star
an angel
fire
rain
- 16. Multiple Choice
The idea of the archetype was first conceived by
Joseph Campbell
Herbert Mason
King Nimrod
Carl Jung
- 17. Multiple Choice
The hero's journey is also known as
the monomyth
the parable
the allegory
the fairy tale
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is an archetype?
a metaphor
a moral in a story
a universal symbol
a plot device
- 19. Multiple Choice
Gilgamesh was found
in the Hanging Garden of Babylon.
the Library at Nineveh.
the Sphinx.
the Tower of Babel.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Hummurabi was a Babylonian king famous for ____________________.
Writing a system of laws.
Inventing the wheel.
The concept of zero.
Inventing aqueducts.
- 21. Multiple Choice
The Gilgamesh tablets were translated by
George Jacobs
Sir Walter Maxim
George Smith
Ali Agrahim
- 22. Multiple Choice
The version of Gilgamesh that is now widely read is roughly
4000
8000
7000
2000
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