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Question 1

When was Gilgamesh made

Answer 1

4000 years ago

Question 2

Wandering in the desert in 18?? who?

Answer 2

1849, Hormuz Rassam and Austen Henry

Question 3

Uncovering the ?? Empire

Answer 3

Assyrian

Question 4

Everything is written in ….?

Answer 4

Cuneiform

Question 5

Who cracked the code for Gilgamesh

Answer 5

George Smith

Question 6

What does the Tablets say?

Answer 6

A story about a big flood

Question 7

Why is the flood so important

Answer 7

• The Bible vs Science : gave proof that the Bible was true
• Near East Culture Connection : showed that the culture of regions in the past were more similar than expected

Question 8

Who was Gilgamesh

Answer 8

A king from Uruk, known as modern day iraq

Question 9

What are the signs of Enkidu’s civilized behavior

Question 10

Why is civilization important for human behavior

Question 11

What are the pros and cons of Enkidu’s transformation for Enkidu

Question 12

What are the pros and cons of Enkidu’s transformation for Gilgamesh

Question 13

What are the pros and cons of Enkidu’s transformation for the world in general

Question 14

Why compassion and helping others is a trait essential for civilization

Question 15

What are the costs of this change? What negative impact could it have on human society? Or what negative impact could it have on nature?

Question 16

What virtue and vice could be an example?

Answer 16

Apathetic— Compassion —Overprotective

Question 17

What is the golden mean?

Answer 17

good/moral behavior was always between two vice

Question 18

What do we find out about Humbaba

Answer 18

• Guardian of the cedar forest
• Placed there by Enlil
• a big monster

Question 19

Why kill a humbaba, and which one is more convincing?

Question 20

What is analyzing dreams called

Answer 20

Oneiromancy

Question 21

Dreams can be interpreted to know the f______ by analyzing s________.

Answer 21

1. Future 2. Symbols

Question 22

Gilgamesh dreams of a bright star that shoots across the sky and lands at his feet like a boulder. Gilgamesh can’t lift it, but caresses it instead. (p82)

What are some possible symbols? What could they mean?

Question 23

Gilgamesh dreams of a fire-breathing eagle with a lion’s head trying to kill him. A man with “an unearthly glow” breaks its wings and snaps its neck. (p112)

Question 24

Although they are supposed to be fearless heroes, they act…..

Question 25

What does ‘Two boats lashed together will never sink. A three-ply rope is not easily broken’ mean?

Question 25

What does Ishtar do as revenge

Question 25

Given how “horrible” Humbaba is though, why do we not feel completely satisfied by his death.

Question 25

How does the book us Metaphors as weapons

Question 26

How was Enkidu’s death foreshadowed

Answer 26

- Humbaba’s last words - The rain after Humbaba dies

Question 27

How did Enkidu react towards Shamhat about his death

Question 28

Why does Gilgamesh insist that Everyone mourns?

Question 29

Why did Gilgamesh choose these metaphors to describe Enkidu

Question 30

Why does the maggot shock Gilgamesh so much?

Question 31

Why compare Gilgamesh to an eagle and lion

Question 32

How And Why does Gilgamesh memorializes Enkidu

Question 33

How do both Gilgamesh and Enkidu go through the 5 stages of grief

Question 34

How did Enkidu’s death change Gilgamesh

Question 35

What is Gilgamesh’s solution for death

Question 36

What does the twin peak symbolize

Question 37

Why would the gods want to destroy the Earth

Question 38

Why did I the gods spare Utnapishtim

Question 39

What human flaws do the gods show

Question 40

What was Utnapishtim’s contest

Answer 40

Gilgamesh must stay awake for 7 days

Question 41

What does sleep represent for Gilgamesh

Answer 41

- something all men do - symbolizes strength - testing how he handles immortality - DEATH

Question 42

How does Gilgamesh lose the plant of youth

Answer 42

It is stolen by a snake

Question 43

What kind of image do snakes have

Question 44

What are the consenquences of being immortal

Question 45

How does Gilgamesh change from the start to the end of the story.