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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Harim and Enkidu proceed to the temple, what does the young priestess do?
(a) She sends him in alone.
(b) She brings him into the temple.
(c) She speaks to Ishtar.
(d) She leaves Enkidu at the gate.

2. What is done with the entrails?
(a) They are destroyed.
(b) They are burnt as an offering to the god Shamash.
(c) They are divided among the city's tradesmen.
(d) They are eaten by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

3. What does Enkidu do when Gilgamesh gathers to him an arsenal of finely wrought weaponry and lays it before his Enkidu's feet?
(a) He laughs at him.
(b) He agrees to take part in the adventure.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He still turns away.

4. What should Gilgamesh not do?
(a) Walk the streets or approach the Temple of Ishtar.
(b) Speak to Ishtar.
(c) Leave his home.
(d) Be near Endiku.

5. Who robs a young hunter's traps?
(a) Aruru.
(b) Enkidu.
(c) Anu.
(d) Ishtar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enkidu resolve to do?

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

3. How does Gilgamesh react to his mother's warning?

4. Watching the battle between Humbaba and the two friends, what happens to the goddess Ishtar?

5. What is this dream, according to Gilgamesh's mother?

(see the answer key)

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