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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Epic of Gilgamesh - Standard version and Old Babylonian Version.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ut-napishtium prove to Gilgamesh how many days the latter man slept?
(a) Ut-napishtium had Shamash stand as witness.
(b) Ut-napishtium put a cut on Gilgamesh's leg for each day.
(c) Ut-napishtium's wife baked a loaf of bread for each day Gilgamesh slept.
(d) Ut-napishtium planted a tree for each day Gilgamesh slept.

2. What happens to the plant Gilgamesh took from the Apsu?
(a) It is lost in a storm.
(b) It is eaten by Gilgamesh in a trick from Ishtar.
(c) It is stolen by Ishtar.
(d) It is stolen by a snake.

3. What unique feature does this book use to help the reader understand these stories?
(a) It relates these stories to other, well-known tales.
(b) It offers several original pictures from the time period.
(c) It offers a version of the stories in their original language.
(d) It is fully annotated so that further research is accessible.

4. What reason is given for parts of these myths being missing?
(a) Some of the paintings were missing.
(b) The tapestries had been partially burned.
(c) The pottery had been shattered.
(d) The tablets were partially destroyed.

5. What offer does Gilgamesh refuse from Ishtar?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Patronage.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Divinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, what does Enkidu offer to retrieve for Gilgamesh?

2. After seven years of famine, to what does mankind resort?

3. What is the station of the god or goddess who creates man?

4. What theory does the author suggest as the origin for the tale of Atrahasis?

5. On their journey to the Pine Forest, what plagues Gilgamesh?

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