Exam Questions Gilgamesh Heroic Myth Intro Ch13

Chapter 13:Introduction to Heroic Myth: The Mesopotamian Legend of Gilgamesh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 01

1. The term hero probably means “_______.”

a. leader

b. army

c. protector

d. berserker

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 02

2. What were cult places for the worship of heroes called?

a. laoi

b. perirrhanteria

c. peripetoi

d. heroa

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 03

3. In the early fifth century BE, Cimon of Athens brought “home to Athens” the bones a giant skeleton he took to be that of _______.

a. Theseus

b. Heracles

c. Homer

d. Odysseus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 04

4. When did the celebration of religious cult at some preexisting Greek tumuli seem to have begun?

a. In the Middle Bronze Age

b. In the early Mycenaean Period

c. In the late Iron Age

d. At the beginning of the Classical Period

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 05

5. Gilgamesh was a real man who once ruled which Sumerian city?

a. Ur

b. Nippur

c. Larsa

d. Uruk

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 06

6. How is Gilgamesh described?

a. As two-thirds divine and one-third mortal

b. As one-third falcon, one-third lion, and one part mortal

c. As the son of all the gods

d. As the only true son of Anu

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 07

7. Gilgamesh advises the trapper to take a _______ with him to deal with Enkidu.

a. troop of picked men

b. whore

c. lion and a bull

d. bag of gold

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 08

8. After Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill Humbaba, they offer Humbaba’s head to which god, who is furious that they have killed him?

a. Anu

b. Ishtar

c. Enlil

d. Aruru

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 09

9. To whom does Ishtar furiously complain after she is savagely insulted by Gilgamesh?

a. Enlil

b. Aruru

c. Anu

d. Ereshkigal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 10

10. _______ and his wife were the only mortals to have survived the flood.

a. Lugalbanda

b. Siduri

c. Shamash

d. Utnapishtim

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 11

11. In the garden of the gods at the edge of the sea lived _______, the divine beer maid.

a. Shamash

b. Errakal

c. Peshtur

d. Siduri

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 12

12. What trial does Utnapishtim suggest in order to prove Gilgamesh’s innate mortality?

a. To stay awake for six days and seven nights

b. To slay the guardian serpent of the garden of the gods

c. To climb the Mountain of Cedar

d. To travel to the Netherworld and return alive

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 13

13. Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh of a _______ that would restore youth to an old man.

a. prickly herb that grew deep in the sea

b. fruit of a tree in the garden of the gods

c. drink made by Utnapishtim’s wife

d. ring made by the Annunaki

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 14

14. In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the “hero myth,” one of the hero’s parents _______.

a. must be deceased

b. may be a wild animal

c. may be divine

d. must be divine

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 15

15. In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the “hero myth,” the hero’s great strength is a menace to _______.

a. to the gods

b. his compatriots as well as to others

c. to the enemies of some rival community

d. his own family

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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 16

16. In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the “hero myth,” the hero _______.

a. falls under an enemy’s power and is compelled to perform impossible labors

b. is always destroyed by a dangerous woman

c. has an ordinary birth but nevertheless performs spectacular deeds

d. refuses all help from the gods

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 17

17. In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the “hero myth,” the hero _______.

a. finds that his true companion is actually a disguised god

b. breaks taboos, but never pays a price for it

c. is responsible for the death of a companion

d. never truly returns home before he dies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 18

18. In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the “hero myth,” the hero, at his death, _______.

a. receives a magnificent funeral and may become a god

b. is buried in an unmarked tomb

c. is appeased with a human sacrifice

d. may appear above his tomb and speak some final words to his family

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 19

19. When does female nudity appear in public Greek art?

a. In the early Archaic Period

b. Late in the Classical Period

c. In early Hellenistic Period

d. Sometime in the Mycenaean Age

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 20

20. The female equivalent to kouroi statues in the Archaic Period are called _______.

a. keftedes

b. kalai

c. kleroi

d. korai

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 - Question 21

21.

This statue is of the type called a _______.

a. korê

b. heroon

c. polemistês

d. kouros