EN 207 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS
What is the simple, yet poignant, way we have chosen to define a hero? - Answers -
Someone who is larger than life
Ultimately it is Enkidu's _____ that causes Gilgamesh to seek immortality beyond mere
heroic stories that are said about him, thus commencing his spiritual quest. - Answers -
death
When Gilgamesh leaves the land of Utanapishtim he takes a magical plant that can help
a man grow young again, but while bathing in a pond the plant is carried away by____. -
Answers - Snake
What causes Enkidu to no longer be accepted by the animals who once was a part of? -
Answers - he has sex with a prostitute
T/F? Gilgamesh learns (like all good heroes) that he indeed is immoral! - Answers -
false
What is a man's relationship to the gods? - Answers - one of mutual dependency and
trust, despite the obvious power imbalance. The gods are described as being very
similar to humans.
Where does Gilgamesh turn his attention after he fails to attain eternal life? - Answers -
he turns his attention to searching for a more literal immortality than a name that will live
after him
How does Gilgamesh, in your words, become a wise king? - Answers -
themes of the creation myths? - Answers - -relation of god/gods earth
-natural law theory, binding knowable moral code that humans are obliged to follow or
suffer divine retribution/
-suffering and toil are essential to human condition
-assertion of authority of the work
Key elements, themes, conflicts, symbols, etc. you would see in modern American
"creation myth." What gods/god give "birth" to this land? - Answers -
After a wresting contest with an angel in Genesis 32, Jacob is renamed _____. -
Answers - Israel
God establishes a _____ with Abram. - Answers - covenant
, With the promise that she can be like a god, what animal tempts Eve to eat of the fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil? - Answers - serpent
According to the book of Genesis chapter 1, how does creation of the universe and the
world come into being? (How does God create life? This is different, for instance, from
the Enuma Elish where the world is created out of the body of the goddess Tiamat.) -
Answers - he speaks
Early on in Genesis we see "combat" between the humans Cain and Abel; however,
Genesis presents a monotheistic culture so we don't see combat taking place between
________ like we do in something like the Enuma Elish. - Answers - gods
Please recall a few of the unique elements about the creation story(ies) present in
Genesis. Also, recall the two distinctions between the flood narrative in Genesis as
opposed to the one in Gilgamesh. - Answers -
covenant is what? - Answers - a formal and serious agreement written between two or
more people
What does it say about the God the Hebrew people worship that he wishes to have a
covenant with them? p 168 - Answers -
In Genesis what is the first question God asks as a human being? - Answers - "Where
are you?" or "Where art thou?"
First question a human ask God? - Answers - "am i my brothers keeper"
Discuss Abraham and Jacob and Joseph as heroes. What characteristics are shown to
be heroic in these characters' stories? How do they differ from Gilgamesh? - Answers -
Abraham and his sons were wise not because of what they did but cause of how the
gave everything they had to god and listened to him no matter what (killing his on son).
They also did it for the glory of God and not for personal gain unlike Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh did it for eternal life.
epic - Answers - a long narrative poem dealing with large and important characters and
events
shame culture - Answers - an other-directed culture in which one's worst is based on
how one's peers value him
kleos - Answers - fame or glory
time - Answers - respect or honor
in medias res - Answers - in the middle of things
ANSWERS
What is the simple, yet poignant, way we have chosen to define a hero? - Answers -
Someone who is larger than life
Ultimately it is Enkidu's _____ that causes Gilgamesh to seek immortality beyond mere
heroic stories that are said about him, thus commencing his spiritual quest. - Answers -
death
When Gilgamesh leaves the land of Utanapishtim he takes a magical plant that can help
a man grow young again, but while bathing in a pond the plant is carried away by____. -
Answers - Snake
What causes Enkidu to no longer be accepted by the animals who once was a part of? -
Answers - he has sex with a prostitute
T/F? Gilgamesh learns (like all good heroes) that he indeed is immoral! - Answers -
false
What is a man's relationship to the gods? - Answers - one of mutual dependency and
trust, despite the obvious power imbalance. The gods are described as being very
similar to humans.
Where does Gilgamesh turn his attention after he fails to attain eternal life? - Answers -
he turns his attention to searching for a more literal immortality than a name that will live
after him
How does Gilgamesh, in your words, become a wise king? - Answers -
themes of the creation myths? - Answers - -relation of god/gods earth
-natural law theory, binding knowable moral code that humans are obliged to follow or
suffer divine retribution/
-suffering and toil are essential to human condition
-assertion of authority of the work
Key elements, themes, conflicts, symbols, etc. you would see in modern American
"creation myth." What gods/god give "birth" to this land? - Answers -
After a wresting contest with an angel in Genesis 32, Jacob is renamed _____. -
Answers - Israel
God establishes a _____ with Abram. - Answers - covenant
, With the promise that she can be like a god, what animal tempts Eve to eat of the fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil? - Answers - serpent
According to the book of Genesis chapter 1, how does creation of the universe and the
world come into being? (How does God create life? This is different, for instance, from
the Enuma Elish where the world is created out of the body of the goddess Tiamat.) -
Answers - he speaks
Early on in Genesis we see "combat" between the humans Cain and Abel; however,
Genesis presents a monotheistic culture so we don't see combat taking place between
________ like we do in something like the Enuma Elish. - Answers - gods
Please recall a few of the unique elements about the creation story(ies) present in
Genesis. Also, recall the two distinctions between the flood narrative in Genesis as
opposed to the one in Gilgamesh. - Answers -
covenant is what? - Answers - a formal and serious agreement written between two or
more people
What does it say about the God the Hebrew people worship that he wishes to have a
covenant with them? p 168 - Answers -
In Genesis what is the first question God asks as a human being? - Answers - "Where
are you?" or "Where art thou?"
First question a human ask God? - Answers - "am i my brothers keeper"
Discuss Abraham and Jacob and Joseph as heroes. What characteristics are shown to
be heroic in these characters' stories? How do they differ from Gilgamesh? - Answers -
Abraham and his sons were wise not because of what they did but cause of how the
gave everything they had to god and listened to him no matter what (killing his on son).
They also did it for the glory of God and not for personal gain unlike Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh did it for eternal life.
epic - Answers - a long narrative poem dealing with large and important characters and
events
shame culture - Answers - an other-directed culture in which one's worst is based on
how one's peers value him
kleos - Answers - fame or glory
time - Answers - respect or honor
in medias res - Answers - in the middle of things
