Questions/Answers

Questions:

1. What did books look like during the time that Enheduana was writing? How were these books written?

2. What did her father do?

3. What was Enheduana's job? List three of her duties. How does she lose her job?

4. The author says that Enheduana's poems were so popular that they were like bastsellers today. What evidence does she use to support her claim.

5. Enheduana's writings are hymns of praise, but they also tell us about times she lived in. Describe one "current event" that Enheduana's wrote about.

Answers:

1. They looked like clay with something scratched in it, used sticks to carve letters into clay.
2. They lived in Agade, her father was one of the great sumer kings.
3. Enheduana was a high priestess, She also wrote and spoke.
4. The evidance is that people didn't really pay attention to womens literature, but a lot of them read her book so it proves that it was a good read, and that is what bestsellers are.
5. She wrote about the rebels that tried to overthrow her father.