Part 1 : 60 points, 30 each
In not more than a clear,coherent and well-organised parapraph each,comment on the following quotes naming the speaker,the addressee and the occasion

1.   Let all come out
However vile! However base it be
I must unlock the secret of my birth.
The woman, with more than woman's pride, is shamed
By my low origin, I am the child of Fortune,
The giver of good, and I shall not be shamed
She is my mother ; my sisters are the Seasons;
My rising and my falling march with theirs,
Born thus, I ask to be no other man
Than that I am, and will know who I am.


2.   Humbaba's cry is the roar of a deluge
His maw is fire, his breath is death.
He can hear rustling in the forest for sixty double leagues.
Who can go into the forest ?
Adad is first and Humbaba is second.
Who, even among the gods, could attack him ?
In order to safeguard the forest of cedars,
Enlil has appointed him to terrify the people,
Enlil has destined him seven fearsome glories.
Besides, whosoever enters his forest is struck down by disease.
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Part 11: 40 points
In not more than a short ,clear coherent and well-organised essay, attempt only one of the following:

A.  There is personal responsibility for suffering : intellectual pride leads to punishment ;" murder will out ";  breaches of the unwritten laws, incest and parricide. Oedipus is partly responsible for his fall.

B.  Gilgamesh is rich in religious symbolism. Religious rituals in Mesopotamia involved sacrifices festivals sex, dream interpretation, and shamanic magic, all of which appear in the story