Gilgamesh Quiz III, Version C
Quiz on the return of Gilgamesh, Version C.
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Quiz – The Epic of Gilgamesh (Background)
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.What does Gilgamesh do that means he fails Utnapishtim's test?
2.Whose idea is it to offer Gilgamesh a "consolation prize" after having failed the test?
3.What does Utnapishtim offer to Gilgamesh as a "consolation prize"?
4.Who/What steals that prize from Gilgamesh?
5.Identify Uruk.
6.Identify the role played by Layard in the archaeological history of this epic.
7.Identify the role played by Rassam in the archaeological history of this epic.
8.What type of epic poem develops over the course of generations through an oral tradition rather than at the hand of a single poet?
9.What is the proper term for a version of a work of literature that is itself the result of scholarly comparisons made between variant versions of that story?
10.What is the proper term for the kind of writing in which the Gilgamesh was originally recorded?