Q 01/05
A) Mesopotamia
B) Egypt
C) Anatolia
D) The Indus Valley
Answer · why
It is generally called the world's oldest surviving work of narrative literature.
Q 02/05
A) Nineveh
B) Ur
C) Uruk
D) Babylon
Answer · why
At the end of the epic the sight of the city's massive walls consoles him for his failure to find eternal life.
Q 03/05
A) Two-thirds
B) One-third
C) One-half
D) Three-quarters
Answer · why
His mother was a goddess who helps interpret his dreams.
Q 04/05
A) 12
B) 7
C) 20
D) 30
Answer · why
The final one is a later appendix in which Enkidu is somehow alive again; roughly a third of the whole is still missing.
Q 05/05
A) Enheduanna
B) Nabu-zuqup-kenu
C) Sîn-lēqi-unninni
D) Berossus
Answer · why
He is thought to have pushed the theme of mortality to the fore, turning the hero from adventurer into wise man.
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