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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a talent?
(a) A type of sword
(b) A unit for measuring length
(c) A unit of measure equalling about sixty pounds
(d) An ability a person has to perform well

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

3. What two things does Enkidu do that make him like a man?
(a) Eats bread and sleeps with the woman
(b) Cuts down the forest and kills the wolves
(c) Annoints his body with oil and puts on his garment
(d) Kills a lion and drinks strong wine

4. Humbaba asks Gilgamesh to not do what to him?
(a) Banish him from the forest
(b) Cut down all the trees
(c) Kill him
(d) Burn the forest down

5. Which god does not want either man to die?
(a) Shamash
(b) Ea
(c) Anu
(d) Enlil

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh break when he meets Urshanabi?

2. What other people try to discourage Gilgamesh from undertaking his voyage to engage Humbaba?

3. How far down does the mountain reach?

4. Enkidu curses three people/things as he lies dying. Who are they?

5. What happens to those who go to the cedar forest?

(see the answer key)

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