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Weekly Quiz - 3/01/00
The Flood Story

1. In which flood story does it rain forty days and forty nights?
Babylonian
Greek
Hebrew
Roman

2. In which flood story do the survivors travel by inverted umbrella?
Babylonian
Chinese
Greek
Hebrew

3. Who advised the chosen mortal about the flood (or told him how to prepare for it)?
Enki told Gilgamesh
Prometheus told Lycaon
Prometheus told Deucalion
Zeus told Lycaon

4. In which story was the world repopulated with stones?
Babylonian
Chinese
Greek
Hebrew

5. In which story were the survivors saved because of their hospitality?
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Noah and his family
Philemon and Baucis
Utnupishtim and his family

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