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

Question 1

The term hero probably means "_______."

A) leader
B) army
C) protector
D) berserker

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What were cult places for the worship of heroes called?

A) laoi
B) perirrhanteria
C) peripetoi
D) heroa

Answer 2

D

Question 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

Answer 3

A

Question 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

Question 5

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

A) Ur
B) Nippur
C) Larsa
D) Uruk

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 9

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

A) Enlil
B) Aruru
C) Anu
D) Ereshkigal

Question 10

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

A) Lugalbanda
B) Siduri
C) Shamash
D) Utnapishtim

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 20

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

A) keftedes
B) kalai
C) kleroi
D) korai

Question 21

This statue is of the type called a _______.

A) korê
B) heroon
C) polemistês
D) kouros