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WorksheetsGilgamesh - Chapters 9-12
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Gilgamesh's first test was to stay awake. For how long was he challenged to stay awake?
2 days
7 days and 7 nights
2 weeks
forever
What did Utnapishtim show to Gilgamesh to convince him that he had slept for 7 days and 7 nights
loaves of bread
jugs of water
stones
a calendar
Gilgamesh had to find something called Old-Man-Young. What was Old-Man-Young?
a magical creature
A magical gem
A magical potion
A magical plant
Where did Gilgamesh have to go to find Old-Mand-Young?
The garden of the gods
The desert
The top of a mountain
The bottom of the ocean
What creature ended up eating the plant?
A snake
A crab
A scorpion
A lion
Where did Gilgamesh go after he failed in his quest?
To the Cedar Forest
Home to Urek
To heaven
He went off to die alone
What did Gilgamesh have his scribes and masons do?
Build a statue of Enkidu
Build a ziggurat to honor the gods
Plan a large celebration for his people as a welcome home party.
Record his adventures by carving them onto the wall of heroes and writing them onto clay tablets
Why was the last (12th) panel unfinished? What was it going to show?
Gilgamesh's funeral
Gilgamesh reuniting with Enkidu
Gilgamesh as an old man
The people of Urek
How did Gilgamesh finally find happiness?
He made a new friend
He went to live in the woods to honor Enkidu
He got married and had a child
He figured out how to live forever
How did Gilgamesh honor his best friend?
He went to live in the woods.
He married Hatti
He named his son Enkidu
He built a huge statue of Enkidu
