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WorksheetsReview Challenge #1.1 - Gilgamesh
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does Gilgamesh fear most when the story begins?
losing his bestfriend
death
not living the "good" life
losing
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
Who translated and preserved the epic itself?
Sumerians
Akkadians
Assyrians
Babylonians
What Assyrian king had a great library?
Henry Rawlinson
Ashurbanipal
Ramses II
Alexander the Great
Where was the great Assyrian library located?
Istanbul
Cairo
Nineveh
Jerusalem
Gilgamesh was king of
Sumer
Uruk
Dilmun
Mashu
a hero goes on a journey to achieve a goal, bring back a valuable object, or acquire knowledge
archetype
intertextuality
quest
myth
where Utnapishtim lives
Uruk
Dilmun
Mashu
Ishtar
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
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
What does the word "ominous" mean?
grief or sorrow
a sign of evil to come
a sign of good fortune
scary
Gilgamesh laments the death of Enkidu. What does "lament" mean?
feels sadness and grief
fears
feels anger
is confused by
Why does Gilgamesh fear death so much?
he can't defeat it
he doesn't know what the afterlife will be like
he has never died before
he won't be dying in battle
Why is Enkidu so upset as he is dying?
he feels Gilgamesh should be dying, not him
he wanted to die in battle, like a man
he never got to meet Utnapishtim
he had a terrible dream
How far must Gilgamesh walk in complete darkness through the mountain of Mashu?
12 leagues
7 leagues
3 leagues
40 leagues
How far must Gilgamesh walk in complete darkness through the mountain of Mashu?
3 miles
12 miles
36 miles
40 miles
Why does Gilgamesh go on a journey seeking everlasting life?
to bring back Enkidu
so that he won't die
so he has another manly story to tell
to prove the gods wrong
Utnapishtim survived a deluge in order to gain immortality. What is a deluge?
a tornado
an earthquake
a flood
a blizzard
Who accompanies Gilgamesh on his journey to see Utnapishtim?
Man-Scorpions
Urshanabi
Siduri
Shamash
Prior to Gilgamesh, who has heard Utnapishtim's story about the flood?
Enkidu
no one
Ubara-Tutu
Urshanabi
