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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishtar feel about the elders' plan?
(a) She agrees with it.
(b) She disagrees with it.
(c) She agrees with it at first.
(d) She is unsure about it.

2. How does the scorpion man's wife reply?
(a) The stranger is two-thirds god and one-third man.
(b) This is Gilgamesh, our King.
(c) Allow the stranger to stay.
(d) Do not kill the stranger. Let him speak.

3. What happens when Enkidu hurries to the Temple of Ishtar to look for Harim?
(a) He finds her with another man.
(b) He finds her praying to Ishtar.
(c) He finds her crying.
(d) He finds the courtyard empty and the gates locked.

4. What do Gilgamesh and Enkidu do when Ishtar calls the gods to battle against them?
(a) They plan to meet with the other gods.
(b) They plead with her to leave them alone.
(c) They laugh at her.
(d) They ignore her and set off for Uruk.

5. At first, how does the wine maiden Sabitu feel about Gilgamesh?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is excited.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who robs a young hunter's traps?

2. What does Sabitu do after he thanks her?

3. Why does the young priestess do this?

4. How does the story of Gilgamesh begin?

5. What do singers do?

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