The Epic of Gilgamesh Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Epic of Gilgamesh? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said, "I will go in front of you, and your mouth can cry out: 'Go on closer, do not be afraid!' Should I fall, I will have established my fame"?


Lee Majors—the Fall Guy
Enkidu
Humbaba
Gilgamesh
Q. Who said, "You loved him and embraced him as a wife; and it is he who will repeatedly save you. Your dream is good and propitious!"?


Enkidu
Ninsun
Siduri
Your therapist
Q. Who said,"When the animals are drinking at the watering place, have her take off her robe and expose her sex"?


Enkidu
Dr. Ruth
The Trapper's Father
Shamhat
Q. Who said,"You are young, Gilgamesh, your heart carries you off—you do not know what you are talking about"?


The Urukian Elders
The Jedi Order
The Knights of the Round Table
Enlil
Q. Who said,"No one can see death,no one can see the face of death, no one can hear the voice of death, yet there is savage death that snaps off mankind"?


Utanapishtim
The round table of gods
Aruru
Enlil