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