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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh want to do in the Cedar Forest?
(a) Learn to live with the animals like Enkidu
(b) Go hunting
(c) Cut down all the trees
(d) To meet the shepherds

2. Which four gods argue over Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
(a) Ea, Shamash, Enlil, Ninsun
(b) Shamash, Anu, Eamon, Ninsun
(c) Ea, Anu, Enlil and Shamash
(d) Ishtar, Anu, Anil, Shamash

3. What happens to Enkidu after the gods fight?
(a) Gilgamesh kills him.
(b) He is killed by wolves.
(c) He falls ill.
(d) Ishtar murders him.

4. What happens to those who go to the cedar forest?
(a) They are turned to stone
(b) Weakness overtakes them
(c) The gate burns them
(d) Humbaba eats them

5. How many winds come against Humbaba?
(a) Five
(b) Ten
(c) Two
(d) Eight

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Enkidu and Gilgamesh defeat Humbaba?

2. What do the eight winds do to Humbaba?

3. How does Gilgamesh know something is wrong with Enkidu?

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

5. Shamash does not understand Enkidu's curse against who/what?

(see the answer key)

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