Epic of Gilgamesh quiz
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What does Gilgamesh set out to find after Enkidu dies?
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What does Humbaba guard?
Answer: The Cedar Forest
Why: The Babylonian epic places Humbaba's cedar forest far west of Uruk, in Lebanon.
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Which story did George Smith translate from a tablet in 1872?
Answer: The Great Flood
Why: His tablet had been dug up at Nineveh, in the ruins of an Assyrian royal library.
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Who returns to Uruk with Gilgamesh after his quest?
Answer: Urshanabi
Why: In Uruk, Gilgamesh invites Urshanabi to walk the city wall, echoing the very lines that open the epic.
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Where does Gilgamesh find the plant of youth?
Answer: Under the water
Why: Gilgamesh ties heavy stones to his feet so they drag him down to where the plant grows.
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How does Enkidu die?
Answer: Illness
Why: The sickness is the gods' sentence on Enkidu for killing Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven.
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Which animals make music for Humbaba every day?
Answer: Monkeys
Why: This animal band was unknown until 2011, when a museum in Iraq acquired a new piece of Tablet V.
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