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