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