The Epic of Gilgamesh
What Sumerian city is Gilgamesh the powerful but harsh king of at the beginning of the epic?
What is Uruk?
What is the name of the prince whose wife, Sita, is kidnapped in the Ramayana?
Who is Rama?
What ancient Roman author wrote the lengthy poem Metamorphoses?
Who is Ovid?
What specific disaster has struck the city of Thebes at the start of the play, leading the citizens to beg Oedipus for help?
What is a plague?
What ruler did Scheherazade marry and tell stories to?
Who is King Shahrayar?
Who is the wild man created by the gods to challenge Gilgamesh?
Who is Enkidu?
Who is the ten-headed demon king who kidnaps Sita in the Ramayana?
Who is Ravana?
What common theme or event is central to all the stories told in the Metamorphoses?
What is change or transformation?
What mythological monster did Oedipus defeat to become king of Thebes?
What is the Sphinx?
Why did King Shahrayar decide to execute a new wife every morning?
What is because he was betrayed by his first wife?
What forest guardian is killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, angering the god Enlil?
What is Humbaba?
What creature is the knight turned into at the beginning of the story Bisclavret by Marie de France
What is a werewolf?
Who is the handsome youth who falls in love with his own reflection?
Who is Narcissus?
The god Apollo is angry with Thebes and demands the city find and punish the killer of what former king?
Who is Laius?
Who is Scheherazade's wise father who advises her against her plan to marry the King?
Who is the Vizier?
What creature did the goddess Ishtar send to Uruk after Gilgamesh rejected her advances?
What is the Bull of Heaven?
The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in what English city
What is Canterbury?
What mythological creature—half-man, half-bull—is the offspring of Pasiphae and the Cretan Bull, and is trapped in a labyrinth?
What is the Minotaur?
Who is the brother of Jocasta and the trusted advisor to Oedipus who is initially accused of plotting against him?
Who is Creon?
What is the name of Scheherazade's younger sister who helps her keep the king interested by asking her to continue the story?
Who is Dunyazad?
Who is the only human to survive the Great Flood and whom Gilgamesh seeks out for the secret of immortality?
Who is Utnapishtim?
What is the name of the lady in Marie de France's Laüstic who uses a nightingale as a cover for her secret love?
Who is the lady/wife of the jealous husband?
What Roman goddess is known for her jealousy and is often seen punishing the women Jupiter has affairs with?
Who is Juno?
After realizing the truth, what object does Oedipus use to blind himself?
What are the pins
What central theme about power and gender does the prologue establish when the two kings find the wife of the Great Ifrit cheating on him?
What is that women are deceitful