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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ishtar asks her father to give her ______________.
(a) The key to the underworld
(b) The bull of heaven
(c) Humbaba's soul
(d) An army

3. What is the name of the god to whom Ninsun prays?
(a) Shamash
(b) Egalmah
(c) Shamain
(d) Saecean

4. What word does Gilgamesh use to refer to Enkidu's death in line 13 of Column 2?
(a) Adventure
(b) Worry
(c) Sickness
(d) Sleep

5. What does Gilgamesh put over Enkidu when he is dead?
(a) A wolf pelt
(b) A royal cloak
(c) Fir branches
(d) A veil like a bride

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for Humbaba?

2. Enlil decrees that which man shall die?

3. What two things does Enkidu do that make him like a man?

4. Who does Gilgamesh's mother pray to for protection for her son?

5. What happens when Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight?

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