EN 207 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS
epic - Answers - deals with larger than life characters
literature - Answers - poems, plays, short stories and novels, with excursions into what
we might call "philosophy" and "religion."
history - Answers - an effort to see the storytellers of the world as an international
community across time and space, in which individual members learn from each other,
are influenced by each other, and rewrite each others' stories.
hero - Answers - has characteristics a culture deems important
theme - Answers - what the story says about what it is saying
protagonist - Answers - main character
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
True or False. Gilgamesh learns (like all good heroes) that he indeed is immortal -
Answers - false
Themes of the creation myths: - Answers - A. Relation of god/gods to earth
B. Natural law theory, binding knowable moral code that humans are obliged to follow or
suffer divine retribution.
C. Suffering and toil are essential to human condition
D. Assertion of authority of the work
myths - Answers - mean the deepest structures of the cultural unconscious, the
foundational narratives and the frames by which people think in these cultures.
ANSWERS
epic - Answers - deals with larger than life characters
literature - Answers - poems, plays, short stories and novels, with excursions into what
we might call "philosophy" and "religion."
history - Answers - an effort to see the storytellers of the world as an international
community across time and space, in which individual members learn from each other,
are influenced by each other, and rewrite each others' stories.
hero - Answers - has characteristics a culture deems important
theme - Answers - what the story says about what it is saying
protagonist - Answers - main character
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
True or False. Gilgamesh learns (like all good heroes) that he indeed is immortal -
Answers - false
Themes of the creation myths: - Answers - A. Relation of god/gods to earth
B. Natural law theory, binding knowable moral code that humans are obliged to follow or
suffer divine retribution.
C. Suffering and toil are essential to human condition
D. Assertion of authority of the work
myths - Answers - mean the deepest structures of the cultural unconscious, the
foundational narratives and the frames by which people think in these cultures.
