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