Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
  • 1. Who is Enkidu initially created by in the story?
A) The people of Uruk
B) Gilgamesh
C) The gods
D) Shamhat
  • 2. Gilgamesh is 2/3 god and 1/3 what according to the epic?
A) Bird
B) Beast
C) Man
D) Spirit
  • 3. Who is Gilgamesh's mother in the epic?
A) Ishtar
B) Siduri
C) Ninsun
D) Shamhat
  • 4. Who is the wise man that Gilgamesh seeks out for help?
A) Humbaba
B) Utnapishtim
C) Enkidu
D) Anu
  • 5. Who helps Gilgamesh defeat Humbaba?
A) Siduri
B) Ishtar
C) Shamash
D) Enkidu
  • 6. Who is the father of Gilgamesh?
A) Enkidu
B) King of Uruk
C) Shamash
D) Lugalbanda
  • 7. What deity aids Gilgamesh in his quest for immortality?
A) Shamash
B) Anu
C) Ishtar
D) Enki
  • 8. What does Gilgamesh search for after the death of Enkidu?
A) Immortality
B) Power
C) Wealth
D) Love
  • 9. What is Enkidu's relationship to Gilgamesh?
A) Father
B) Friend
C) Brother
D) Servant
  • 10. What animal represents the god of the earth in the epic?
A) Lion
B) Eagle
C) Snake
D) Bull
  • 11. What city does Gilgamesh rule over?
A) Ur
B) Babylon
C) Nineveh
D) Uruk
  • 12. Who is the guardian of the Cedar Forest that Gilgamesh seeks to defeat?
A) Humbaba
B) Enlil
C) Utnapishtim
D) Anu
  • 13. Who created Enkidu?
A) Ishtar
B) Aruru
C) Gilgamesh
D) Ninsun
  • 14. Who is the goddess of love who tries to seduce Gilgamesh?
A) Siduri
B) Shamhat
C) Ninsun
D) Ishtar
  • 15. What was the original Sumerian name for Gilgamesh?
A) Utnapishtim
B) Bilgames
C) Enkidu
D) Huwawa
  • 16. During which period did Gilgamesh become a major figure in Sumerian legend?
A) Old Babylonian Period
B) Third Dynasty of Ur
C) Akkadian Empire
D) Early Dynastic Period
  • 17. Who composed the standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Aelian
B) Enkidu
C) Huwawa
D) Sîn-lēqi-unninni
  • 18. What did the oracle predict about Gilgamesh in Aelian's anecdote?
A) He would become a god
B) He would die young
C) He would find immortality
D) He would overthrow his grandfather
  • 19. Where was the Epic of Gilgamesh rediscovered?
A) Ur Excavations
B) Sumerian Archives
C) Babylonian Library
D) Library of Ashurbanipal
  • 20. What creature rescued Gilgamesh mid-fall in Aelian's anecdote?
A) A dragon
B) A serpent
C) A lion
D) An eagle
  • 21. Which epic poems are believed to have been influenced by the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Beowulf and The Aeneid
B) The Iliad and the Odyssey
C) The Mahabharata and Ramayana
D) The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost
  • 22. What was the name of the giant Gilgamesh defeated in Sumerian poems?
A) Huwawa
B) Enkidu
C) Utnapishtim
D) Aga
  • 23. What objects did Inanna give to Gilgamesh, which he later lost?
A) Sword and shield
B) Crown and scepter
C) Mikku and pikku
D) Ring and staff
  • 24. What was the main reason Gilgamesh became afraid of death?
A) Oracle's prediction
B) Enkidu's death
C) Defeat by Humbaba
D) Rejection by Ishtar
  • 25. What did the guards do to prevent Gilgamesh's mother from becoming pregnant?
A) Kept her under guard
B) Sent her away
C) Banished her
D) Imprisoned her
  • 26. What was the name of the tree infested by creatures that Inanna needed help with?
A) Sakku tree
B) Date palm
C) Ziziphus tree
D) Huluppu tree
  • 27. Who was Gilgamesh's overlord that he revolted against?
A) Aga of Kish
B) Utnapishtim
C) Huwawa
D) Enkidu
  • 28. What was the time period during which the standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh was composed?
A) Middle Babylonian Period
B) Neo-Assyrian Period
C) Old Babylonian Period
D) Late Bronze Age
  • 29. What is the modern form of the name 'Gilgamesh'?
A) Pabilgames
B) Bilgames
C) Gilgāmeš
D) Enmebaragesi
  • 30. What does the name Gilgamesh translate to in English?
A) Chosen by Utu
B) The (kinsman) is a hero
C) Builder of walls
D) King of Uruk
  • 31. Which king of Uruk adopted Gilgamesh as his patron deity in the 21st century BC?
A) Utu-hengal
B) Agga
C) Shulgi
D) Gudea
  • 32. Who sends the Bull of Heaven to attack Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
A) The goddess Inanna
B) Ninsun
C) Lilitu
D) Enlil
  • 33. Who is described as 'two thirds divine and one third mortal' in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Humbaba
B) Gilgamesh
C) Enkidu
D) Utnapishtim
  • 34. Which god creates Enkidu to counterbalance Gilgamesh's cruelty?
A) Ishtar
B) Ea
C) Shamash
D) Anu
  • 35. Who tames Enkidu before he confronts Gilgamesh?
A) Inanna
B) Urshanabi
C) Shamhat
D) Siduri
  • 36. What does Shamash do to help Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat Humbaba?
A) Turns the forest into a desert
B) Transforms Gilgamesh into a god
C) Blows eight winds in Humbaba's eyes, blinding him
D) Summons lions to attack Humbaba
  • 37. Who does Gilgamesh meet in a beautiful garden by the sea?
A) Siduri, the divine Alewife
B) Ishtar
C) Inanna
D) Shamhat
  • 38. Who directs Gilgamesh to Urshanabi, the ferryman of the gods?
A) Siduri
B) Shamash
C) Ishtar
D) Enkidu
  • 39. What does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh is necessary to become immortal?
A) Defy sleep
B) Marry Ishtar
C) Kill the Bull of Heaven again
D) Conquer the Cedar Forest
  • 40. What does Enkidu's ghost promise to do in Tablet XII?
A) Recover the lost items
B) Lead Gilgamesh to the Cedar Forest
C) Help Gilgamesh become immortal
D) Marry Ishtar
  • 41. Which scholar observed a parallel between Gilgamesh rejecting Ishtar's advances and a scene in the Iliad?
A) Homer.
B) Barry B. Powell.
C) Aelian.
D) Walter Burkert.
  • 42. What similarity exists between Gilgamesh and Odysseus in their epic journeys?
A) Both are kings of Troy.
B) Both build a great wall around their city.
C) Both encounter a woman who can turn men into animals.
D) Both sail to the land of the Phaeacians.
  • 43. What happens in both epics when Gilgamesh and Odysseus visit the Underworld?
A) They receive gifts from the gods.
B) They defeat underworld monsters.
C) Both find themselves unhappy while living with a seductive sorceress.
D) They are crowned as new rulers.
  • 44. What is Gilgamesh's name rendered as in the Book of Giants?
A) glgmš.
B) Γίλγαμος.
C) Seuechoros.
D) Gilgamish/Jiljamish.
  • 45. Who first discovered the Akkadian text of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Austen Henry Layard
B) Ashurbanipal
C) George Smith
D) Friedrich Delitzsch
  • 46. Who produced the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Ashurbanipal
B) George Smith
C) Austen Henry Layard
D) Friedrich Delitzsch
  • 47. How was Gilgamesh's name originally misread?
A) As Shamhat
B) As Uruk
C) As Enkidu
D) As Izdubar
  • 48. Which part of the Epic of Gilgamesh attracted early interest?
A) Gilgamesh's journey to the Cedar Forest
B) The friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu
C) The flood story from Tablet XI
D) The death of Enkidu
  • 49. Which country showed most interest in the Epic of Gilgamesh in the late nineteenth century?
A) France
B) German-speaking countries
C) Italy
D) England
  • 50. Where did Friedrich Delitzsch give his controversial lecture?
A) University of Leipzig
B) British Museum
C) Library of Ashurbanipal
D) Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
  • 51. What was the title of Delitzsch's book published in 1920–21?
A) Babel und Bibel
B) Das Gilgamesch-Epos
C) Die große Täuschung (The Great Deception)
D) Der Ursprung der Bibel
  • 52. Who wrote the first modern literary adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Alfred Jeremias
B) Sir Henry Rawlinson
C) Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
D) Peter Jensen
  • 53. What language did Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton have rudimentary knowledge of?
A) Sumerian
B) Hebrew
C) Greek
D) Akkadian
  • 54. Who equated Gilgamesh with the king Nimrod from the Book of Genesis?
A) Peter Jensen
B) Sir Henry Rawlinson
C) Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
D) Alfred Jeremias
  • 55. What ideology did Peter Jensen propose regarding the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) Panbabylonianism
B) Psychoanalytic interpretation
C) Romantic adaptation
D) Solar hero theory
  • 56. Which German novelist adapted elements of the Epic of Gilgamesh into his novel 'Die Stadt hinter dem Strom'?
A) Guido Bachmann
B) Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
C) Hermann Kasack
D) Charles Olson
  • 57. In which work does the middle section center around a composer whose relationship mirrors that of Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
A) Gilgamesch by Guido Bachmann
B) The Quest of Gilgamesh by Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
C) Zabibah and the King by Saddam Hussein
D) River Without Shores by Hans Henny Jahnn
  • 58. Which author believed that the Epic of Gilgamesh contained ancient virtues capable of curing modern moral degeneracy?
A) Guido Bachmann
B) Gregory Corso
C) Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
D) Hermann Kasack
  • 59. Which novel by Guido Bachmann became a classic of German 'queer literature'?
A) Gilgamesch
B) The Quest of Gilgamesh
C) River Without Shores
D) Zabibah and the King
  • 60. Which scholar stated that Gilgamesh has become an autonomous entity independent of his epic?
A) Theodore Ziolkowski
B) Susan Ackerman
C) Charles Olson
D) Wayne R. Dynes
  • 61. Which former President of Iraq had a lifelong fascination with Gilgamesh?
A) Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
B) Guido Bachmann
C) Saddam Hussein
D) Hans Henny Jahnn
  • 62. Which scholar noted that the language describing Gilgamesh's relationship with Enkidu has homoerotic implications?
A) Susan Ackerman
B) Wayne R. Dynes
C) Charles Olson
D) Theodore Ziolkowski
  • 63. Who unveiled a modern statue of Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney in 2000?
A) Guido Bachmann
B) Assyrian sculptor Lewis Batros
C) Hermann Kasack
D) Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
  • 64. Which Australian band recorded a song titled 'Gilgamesh' in October 2023?
A) A German avant-garde theater collective
B) An American radio play group
C) The Gilgamesh Group
D) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
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