What does Gilgamesh fear most when the story begins?

• losing his bestfriend

• death

• not living the "good" life

• losing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why do the gods kill Enkidu and not Gilgamesh?

• because then there would be no story

• Gilgamesh is 2/3 god

• Gilgamesh is 1/3 god

• to teach Utnapishtim a lesson

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who translated and preserved the epic itself?

• Sumerians

• Akkadians

• Assyrians

• Babylonians

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What Assyrian king had a great library?

• Henry Rawlinson

• Ashurbanipal

• Ramses II

• Alexander the Great

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Where was the great Assyrian library located?

• Istanbul

• Cairo

• Nineveh

• Jerusalem

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Gilgamesh was king of

• Sumer

• Uruk

• Dilmun

• Mashu

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a hero goes on a journey to achieve a goal, bring back a valuable object, or acquire knowledge

• archetype

• intertextuality

• quest

• myth

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

where Utnapishtim lives

• Uruk

• Dilmun

• Mashu

• Ishtar

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why is Utnapishtim called "the Faraway"?

• because he lives far away

• because people make pilgrimage to his home every year

• because his thinking and ideas are pretty far out there

• because no one has ever talked to him

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is something Gilgamesh did to anger the gods?

• defeated Humbaba

• leveled the sacred forest

• rejected a goddess

• killed the Bull of Heaven

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9