Question 3 of 25 • LVA - English Language Arts 12 - FALL
Read the excerpt from Gilgamesh: A New English Version.At four hundred miles they stopped to eat, at a thousand miles they pitched their camp. They had traveled for just three days and nights, a six weeks’ journey for ordinary men.
Answer
A
The men are able to walk four hundred miles before stopping to eat and one thousand miles before stopping to rest.
B
Ordinary men would need less time if they were to embark on a journey of similar length and difficulty.
C
The men are able to travel in three days and nights a distance that would take ordinary men six weeks.
D
Ordinary men would never be able to walk one thousand miles before stopping to eat or to pitch a camp.