Gilgamesh: Man's First Story Test | Final Test - Easy

Bernarda Bryson Shahn
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Gilgamesh: Man's First Story Test | Final Test - Easy

Bernarda Bryson Shahn
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Gilgamesh from doing any further damage?
(a) Lightning strikes the boat and destroys it.
(b) The boatman demands to know who dares to damage the boat of Utnapishtim.
(c) He collapses.
(d) A god calls his name.

2. How is Gilgamesh treated by Utnapishtim?
(a) He is warmly welcomed.
(b) He is rebuked.
(c) He is ignored.
(d) He is humiliated.

3. What does the boatman tell Gilgamesh?
(a) No mortal has ever crossed the Bitter River.
(b) He must hurry to cross the Bitter River.
(c) No mortal shall cross the Bitter River.
(d) He must turn back.

4. What does Gilgamesh assure Enkidu?
(a) If he goes back to the forest, Gilgamesh will send Harim with him.
(b) If he goes to the underworld, he goes alone.
(c) If he leaves Uruk, Gilgamesh will surely die.
(d) If he goes to the underworld, Gilgamesh will wait at the gate until they let Enkidu out again.

5. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's response?
(a) He is displeased.
(b) He is surprised.
(c) He is pleased.
(d) He is saddened.

6. What does Utnapishtim promise to do to the boatman?
(a) Punish him who aided Gilgamesh on his journey.
(b) Reward him for aiding Gilgamesh on his journey.
(c) Treat him the way he has always treated him.
(d) Ignore him.

7. When the water recedes on what is Utnapishtim's construction caught?
(a) A cliff.
(b) A deep sea crater.
(c) The top of a mountain.
(d) A volcano.

8. What does the wife of Utnapishtim urge her husband to give Gilgamesh?
(a) A hug.
(b) Something that will allow him to return to Uruk honorably.
(c) Immortality.
(d) A chance to find Enkidu.

9. Where do the two decide to rest and sleep?
(a) By the river.
(b) On the edge of the cliff.
(c) In a cave.
(d) At a spot with a fresh spring.

10. How long does the storm last?
(a) For ten days and nights.
(b) For one hundred days and nights.
(c) For six days and nights.
(d) For forty days and nights.

11. Why has Gilgamesh come to seek his ancestor?
(a) So he can tell Gilgamesh where Enkidu is and whether of not Gilgamesh must die.
(b) So he can meet his family.
(c) So he can become immortal.
(d) So he can build a friendship with him.

12. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?
(a) Stay awake.
(b) Relate the dreams so that he can tell them to his mother.
(c) Leave Uruk.
(d) Forget his dream.

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

14. Why does Gilgamesh lament to Utnapishtim?
(a) He realizes that his quest is, indeed, hopeless.
(b) He realizes that Utnapishtim wants nothing to do with him.
(c) He realizes he can become immortal.
(d) He realizes that his quest will be much longer than expected.

15. Where are Ishtar and her priestesses in Enkidu's dream?
(a) Gathered on top of the city wall.
(b) In the river.
(c) Gathered on top of the mountain.
(d) Surrounding him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Utnapishtim agree to aid Gilgamesh in his impossible mission?

2. What happens as Gilgamesh bathes?

3. What is natural to man?

4. Through the trees, what does Gilgamesh see?

5. What does Gilgamesh spot?

(see the answer keys)

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