- Tiamat was killed by
- Marduk
- The Babylonian god, Tammuz, conferred immortality on Utnapishtim and his wife.
- False
- __ gave directions to Gilgamesh to find the plant of immortality.
- Utnapishtim
- The goddess Ishtar is also known as
- Inanna
- In a public festival the king of the city of Uruk becomes the husband of
- Inanna
- Utnapishtim sought immortality after the death of his friend, Enkidu
- FALSE
- Inanna was the goddess who descended into the underworld.
- TRUE
- The earliest gods of Mesopotamia were originally the forces of
- Nature
- Hammurabi received his laws from
- Shamash
- The king of Uruk who went on a quest for immortality was
- Gilgamesh
- The term “Mesopotamia” refers to the land between the Euphrates and the Jordan rivers
- FALSE
- Because __ was a devout man, the gods warned him of a great flood.
- Utnapishtim
- One of the public festivals was actually a sacred
- Marriage
- According to Babylonian myths, salt water was personified as
- Tiamat
- The Babylonian god, Tammuz, conferred immortality on Utnapishtim and his wife.
- FALSE
- Public forms of worship at festivals centered around
- Dramas
- According to the Babylonians, pestilence and suffering came from rats and frogs.
- FALSE
- The replacement for Inanna in the underworld was
- Dumuzi
- The god Ea helped in the creation of human beings by using the blood of a god, named
- Kingsu
- The hero of the Enuma Elish is
- Marduk
- The Sumerians believed that pestilences and pandemics occurred when the population of Kigal was low.
- TRUE
- The religions and myths of the Mesopotamians are important because they lie behind many of the myths and religious beliefs of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
- TRUE
- The Mesopotamian underworld is protected by five city walls with a demon at each gate.
- FALSE
- With archaic religions, we now have some religions that are not tribal or national.
- FALSE
- Perhaps the earliest attempt at monotheism occurred in Ancient Egypt.
- TRUE
- The Sumerians believed in a primordial garden that contained the tree of life.
- TRUE
- The biblical story of Noah is based on the Sumerian story of Utnapishtim.
- TRUE
- The Amorites (Amurru) were NW Semites who migrated into Mesopotmia.
- TRUE
- The Sumerians and Babylonians believed that the gods only reward you in life, not in death.
- TRUE
- When Inanna descended into the underworld, she was killed by her sister.
- TRUE
- Marduk became the king of the gods because he slew Tiamut and Kingu.
- TRUE
- Entrance into Kigal is based on whether you were properly buried.
- TRUE
- The Babylonians believed that by honoring and obeying the gods, they would be rewarded in the underworld.
- FALSE
- According to the Sumerians, what animates us is the blood of a god.
- TRUE
- The story of Sargon is based on the story of Moses.
- FALSE
- According to the Sumerians, Inanna and Enki created the first human beings.
- TRUE
- According to the Sumerians, some babies are born with defects so that those who were born ‘whole’ would thank the gods.
- FALSE
- Eventually people in the underworld of the Mesopotamians will die.
- TRUE
- The name of the Mesopotamian underworld is
- Kigal
- The Sumerians believed in a primordial garden that contained the tree of life.
- TRUE
Match the following
- Nirrti : Enki’s ribs
- Dilmun : Location of the first human beings.
- Enki : Fresh water
- Enlil : Power behind the throne of the city-kings.
- Anu : Sky god.
- Nergal : Underworld of the dead
- The husband of Ereshkigal was Dumuzi.
- FALSE
- Dumuzi was eventually sent to the underworld of the dead as the replacement for Inanna.
- TRUE
- With archaic religions, we now have some religions that are not tribal or national.
- FALSE
- According to the Mesopotmians, what resides inthe undeworld is your etemmu, which is your soul.
- FALSE
- The Amorites (Amurru) were NW Semites who migrated into Mesopotmia.
- TRUE
- The name “Amorite” means “Easterner”.
- FALSE
- The Sumerians and Babylonians believed that the gods only reward you in life, not in death.
- TRUE
