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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilgamesh know something is wrong with Enkidu?
(a) Enkidu cries
(b) Ninsun has a dream about Enkidu
(c) Gilgamesh sees Enkidu pounding a wall
(d) Enkidu tells Shamash

2. What happens when Enkidu enters the underworld?
(a) He is placed in chains.
(b) He is told to return to Uruk.
(c) He is sent to heaven.
(d) He is taken away.

3. What presumably is written on the scribes tablet in the underworld?
(a) Enkidu's name
(b) Shamash's name
(c) Utnapishtim's name
(d) Gilgamesh's name

4. Gilgamesh asks Shamash to give Enkidu what?
(a) A kingdom of his own
(b) Victory over Humbaba
(c) A dream
(d) A wife

5. Who interprets Gilgamesh's dreams?
(a) The shepherds
(b) Shamash
(c) Enkidu
(d) Humbaba

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enkidu tell Gilgamesh is guarding the Cedar Forest?

2. When Enkidu curses the trapper, he wishes that his game will do what?

3. With whom does Enkidu live?

4. Humbaba's mouth and breath are like what?

5. What does Enkidu do after talking with Shamash?

(see the answer key)

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