Epic of Gilgamesh - Quiz
A) A collection of Greek myths compiled during the Hellenistic period B) A Roman historical chronicle written in Latin C) An epic from ancient Mesopotamia that is the world's oldest surviving example of narrative literature D) A religious text from ancient Egypt focusing on the afterlife
A) Seven B) Ten C) Five D) Three
A) Uruk B) Ur C) Babylon D) Nineveh
A) First Babylonian Dynasty (c. 1750 BCE) B) Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 700 BCE) C) Akkadian Empire (c. 2300 BCE) D) Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BCE)
A) Sha naqba īmuru B) Athra-Hasis C) Shūtur eli sharrī D) Izdubar
A) 7th century BCE B) 21st century BCE C) 12th century BCE D) 18th century BCE
A) George Smith B) Austen Henry Layard C) Sîn-lēqi-unninni D) Paul Haupt
A) Shūtur eli sharrī B) Izdubar C) Sha naqba īmuru D) Athra-Hasis
A) 8 tablets B) 12 tablets C) 20 tablets D) 5 tablets
A) About one-half B) Almost all of it C) Only a few fragments D) About two-thirds
A) Ashurbanipal B) Nebuchadnezzar C) Hammurabi D) Sargon
A) A divine priest B) A mighty king C) A wise scribe D) A wild man
A) To guard the Cedar Forest B) To stop Gilgamesh from oppressing his people C) To help Gilgamesh conquer foreign lands D) To build the walls of Uruk
A) Through sexual initiation with Shamhat B) Through a battle with Gilgamesh C) By learning to read cuneiform D) By drinking sacred water from a temple
A) Destroys the city walls in anger B) Begins ruling the city alongside Gilgamesh C) Challenges Gilgamesh to a test of strength D) Challenges Ishtar to combat
A) Forty days B) Twelve days C) Six days D) Three days
A) Humbaba B) Izdubar C) Enmebaragesi D) Utnapishtim
A) The immortal cypress B) The holy oak C) The royal palm D) The sacred cedar
A) Inanna B) Ishtar C) Shamhat D) Tiamat
A) Because Gilgamesh killed Humbaba B) Because Gilgamesh spurned her advances C) Because Enkidu entered Uruk D) Because the cedar forest was destroyed
A) Turn him back into a wild beast B) Strip him of his civilization and memories C) Sentence him to death by giving him a fatal illness D) Exile him to the ends of the earth
A) Fear of Ishtar's revenge B) The loss of his kingdom in Uruk C) A prophecy given by the gods in a dream D) Distress over Enkidu's death
A) Utnapishtim and his wife B) Ashurbanipal and his queen C) Sîn-lēqi-unninni and his family D) Enmebaragesi and his daughter
A) Life will never be found because death is man's share set by the gods B) Only those who defeat the gods may live forever C) Life is easily preserved through wisdom and good deeds D) Eternal life can be attained by drinking from a secret spring
A) Heracles (Hercules) B) Achilles C) Odysseus D) Perseus
A) Virgil's epics B) Sumerian epics C) Homeric epics D) Roman epics
A) Austen Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassam, and W. K. Loftus B) Theodore Kwasman and Samuel Noah Kramer C) R. Campbell Thompson and Hobby Lobby D) George Smith, Paul Haupt, and Peter Jensen
A) Early 1890s B) Late 1870s C) Late 1930s D) Early 1850s
A) Theodore Kwasman B) Samuel Noah Kramer C) Paul Haupt D) George Smith
A) 1891 B) 1852 C) 1900 D) 1872
A) Sha naqba īmuru B) The Epic of Izdubar C) The Chaldaean Account of Genesis D) Shūtur eli sharrī
A) Ashurbanipal B) Izdubar C) Athra-Hasis D) Enmebaragesi
A) George Smith B) Paul Haupt C) Peter Jensen D) R. Campbell Thompson
A) Samuel Noah Kramer B) Austen Henry Layard C) Peter Jensen D) Theodore Kwasman
A) W. K. Loftus B) George Smith C) R. Campbell Thompson D) Hormuzd Rassam
A) Theodore Kwasman B) Samuel Noah Kramer C) Peter Jensen D) Paul Haupt
A) Hormuzd Rassam B) Theodore Kwasman C) Samuel Noah Kramer D) George Smith
A) 2100 BCE and 1800 BCE B) 1300 BCE and 1000 BCE C) 1850 CE and 1900 CE D) 600 BCE and 100 BCE
A) 1852 B) 1930 C) 1891 D) 1878
A) Utnapishtim of Shuruppak B) Sîn-lēqi-unninni of Uruk C) Ashurbanipal of Nineveh D) Enmebaragesi of Kish
A) France B) United Kingdom C) Germany D) United States
A) 1998 B) 2003 C) 2014 D) 2007
A) 2014 B) 2019 C) 2003 D) 2007
A) Hobby Lobby B) The Society of Biblical Archaeology C) The British Museum D) The Fragmentarium project
A) New York B) London C) Washington, D.C. D) Nineveh
A) 2021 B) 2019 C) 2014 D) 2003
A) Syria B) Iran C) Iraq D) Turkey
A) 1998 B) 2003 C) 2014 D) 2015
A) Digital translation algorithms B) Infrared photography C) Machine learning analysis D) Carbon dating scanners
A) December 2019 B) August 2024 C) September 2021 D) January 2015
A) 1872 and 1875 B) 1891 and 1900 C) 2014 and 2019 D) 2020 and 2021
A) Ancient Mesopotamia B) Ancient Greece C) Ancient Egypt D) The Indus Valley
A) Babylonian B) Akkadian C) Sumerian D) Assyrian
A) Surpassing All Other Kings B) He Who Saw the Deep(s) C) He Who Sees the Unknown D) The Foundation of the Land
A) The queen of Uruk B) The guardian of the Cedar Forest C) The woman of his sexual initiation D) The goddess who created him
A) Built a temple for Ishtar B) Slew its guardian, Humbaba C) Killed the Bull of Heaven D) Found the secret of eternal life
A) Humbaba B) Sîn-lēqi-unninni C) Athra-Hasis D) Enmebaragesi
A) Fuller translations of the discovered fragments B) A comprehensive edition of Sumerian poems C) A machine learning analysis of cuneiform D) The first translation of the Old Babylonian version
A) A collection of letters B) A single complete epic C) A historical chronicle D) Distinct stories
A) Stanzas B) Steles C) Lacunae D) Cuneiform
A) It is completely deciphered B) It is fully restored C) It has been lost again D) It remains incomplete
A) Deep River version B) Ur Dynasty version C) Original Sumerian version D) Standard Babylonian version
A) Twelve B) Five C) Three D) Two
A) The Twelve Tablets B) Surpassing all other kings C) He who saw the deep D) Lord of the Epic
A) 1000 B) 1835 C) 1853 D) 1300
A) Utnapishtim B) Hormuzd Rassam C) Sin-leqi-unninni D) Lins Brandão
A) Warfare B) Wealth C) Agriculture D) Mortality
A) Sin-leqi-unninni B) Ashurbanipal C) Hormuzd Rassam D) Lins Brandão
A) Europe B) Asia Minor C) Middle East D) North Africa
A) Uta-Napishti B) Ashurbanipal C) Sin-leqi-unninni D) Enkidu
A) Agriculture B) Warfare C) Wisdom D) The Underworld
A) Enuma Elish B) Erra C) Gilgāmeš D) Atra-Hasis
A) Sapiential literature B) iškar Gilgāmeš C) Surpassing all other kings D) ša naqba īmuru
A) 7 B) 10 C) 11 D) 12
A) Utnapishtim B) Sin-leqi-unninni C) Enkidu D) Ea
A) God B) Spirit C) Monster D) Animal
A) Rhyme B) Alliteration C) Metaphor D) Parallelism
A) Hebrew Psalms B) Ashurbanipal's library records C) Sumerian flood tales D) Epic of Atra-Hasis
A) Alfred Jeremias B) Martin Litchfield West C) George Smith D) Neil MacGregor
A) George Smith B) Alfred Jeremias C) Martin Litchfield West D) Lins Brandão
A) Narû B) Antediluvian C) Misanthrope D) Izdubar
A) Pass the text on without omitting or adding anything B) Add new adventures of Gilgamesh C) Translate it into Greek heroic poetry D) Destroy the stele after reading |
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