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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sabitu ask Gilgamesh about his appearance?
(a) Why is is so dirty.
(b) Why he is dressed in animal skins and why his skin appears as if it is badly burnt.
(c) Why is seems so tired.
(d) Why he is still so handsome after his travels.

2. Why does Gilgamesh pour meal on the earth?
(a) To grow crops.
(b) To appease the gods.
(c) To feed the birds.
(d) To protect their feet as they walk.

3. What does Shamash advise Gilgamesh to do?
(a) Ask some other god about the underworld.
(b) Find Enkidu immediately.
(c) Follow his rules.
(d) Give up his search.

4. What does Gilgamesh smash?
(a) The deck.
(b) The oarlocks.
(c) The sails.
(d) The oars.

5. What does Enkidu do to the tall cedar gate, the hunters, and Harim?
(a) He wonders what has happened to them.
(b) He curses them.
(c) He misses them.
(d) He thanks them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?

2. What does Enkido do when Gilgamesh attempts to enter?

3. Why is Urshanabi banished from the place for all time?

4. Gilgamesh turns to Nergal, the gatekeeper of the underworld, and does what?

5. Who blesses Utnapishtim and his wife, making them immortal?

(see the answer key)

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