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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh want to do in the Cedar Forest?
(a) Go hunting
(b) Cut down all the trees
(c) To meet the shepherds
(d) Learn to live with the animals like Enkidu

2. Gilgamesh is ____________, while Enkidu is _____________.
(a) young, old
(b) A man, A woman
(c) humble, rash
(d) rash, humble

3. What is a recension?
(a) A time when water recedes after a flood
(b) A period of extreme famine
(c) A time of economic depression
(d) A revision of a text

4. What type of drink is Enkidu used to drinking?
(a) The wine drunk in the city
(b) Cow's milk
(c) The milk of wild animals
(d) Water from a stream

5. The tale of Gilgamesh is carved on what type of stone?
(a) Lapis
(b) Quartz
(c) Iron Ore
(d) Copper

Short Answer Questions

1. What falls to the earth in Gilgamesh's dream?

2. How does Enkidu feel about the journey into the forest?

3. Where is Enkidu raised?

4. Gilgamesh thinks he is entitled to do what with new brides?

5. What do the people of Uruk say about Enkidu when they first see him?

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