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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishtar do after watching the two victors for a time as they bathe and rest?
(a) She leaves them alone.
(b) She approaches Enkidu and threatens great punishment.
(c) She admires them.
(d) She approaches Gilgamesh and threatens great punishment.

2. How does the wife of Utnapishtim describe Gilgamesh?
(a) As an odd looking man.
(b) As a young man, thin and haggered, but otherwise like to she and her husband.
(c) A filthy mess.
(d) A stranger.

3. Of what does Gilgamesh remind her?
(a) He cannot enter the underworld.
(b) There are no more monsters to be killed.
(c) Every lover she has ever taken has been destroyed.
(d) He loves Enkidu.

4. 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 becomes angry.
(c) He still turns away.
(d) He agrees to take part in the adventure.

5. How does the wild man find himself when sitting beside the young priestess?
(a) Sad.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Utterly content.
(d) Worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sabitu ask Gilgamesh about his appearance?

2. What does Ninsun do at the temple?

3. What is Utnapishtim doing at the beginning of this chapter?

4. What is the result of the King's request to continue building the walls higher and higher?

5. What does Gilgamesh spot?

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