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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at that moment?
(a) He calls for his mother.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He dies.
(d) He awakes.

2. What is a city of fine houses, magnificent temples, marketplaces, and groves of trees?
(a) Uruk.
(b) Emar.
(c) Larsa.
(d) Babylon.

3. What does Ninsun possess?
(a) A great deal of knowledge.
(b) The gifts of prophecy and the interpretation of dreams.
(c) Wealth.
(d) The ability to soothe those who are distraught.

4. At the Temple of Ishtar, the citizens of Uruk will finally do what?
(a) Destroy the temple.
(b) Ask Ishtar for guidance.
(c) Choose a bride for their king, Gilgamesh.
(d) Pray to Ishtar.

5. To what is this man compared?
(a) A brother.
(b) An enemy.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) A father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does King Gilgamesh surprise his people, regarding this person?

2. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?

3. Why is Enkidu enchanted by the young girl?

4. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?

5. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?

(see the answer key)

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