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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to those who go to the cedar forest?
(a) They are turned to stone
(b) Weakness overtakes them
(c) The gate burns them
(d) Humbaba eats them

2. What things do the shepherds teach Enkidu?
(a) To fight like a soldier
(b) To eat, talk and behave as people in the city do
(c) To tend sheep
(d) To stalk and kill animals

3. What is stilled into silence when the men behold the forest?
(a) Their voices
(b) Humbaba's words
(c) The sound of the gods
(d) The wind

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

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

6. Humbaba promises to be Gilgamesh's what if left alive?
(a) Best Friend
(b) Servant
(c) Armorer
(d) Shepherd

7. How many winds come against Humbaba?
(a) Eight
(b) Two
(c) Ten
(d) Five

8. What does Enkidu have knowledge of after being with the woman?
(a) Man
(b) God
(c) Good and Evil
(d) The world

9. How does Enkidu react to Gilgamesh's dreams?
(a) He interprets them positively
(b) He has similar dreams
(c) He says he fears they will come true
(d) He says they mean nothing

10. What does Gilgamesh say will happen if Humbaba kills him?
(a) Gilgamesh's name will live on forever.
(b) Gilgamesh will burn down the forest.
(c) Enkidu will have to kill Humbaba.
(d) The people of Uruk will hunt down the demon.

11. Who do the elders counsel Gilgamesh to let lead the way?
(a) The shepherds
(b) The animals
(c) Enkidu
(d) The gods

12. What happens when Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight?
(a) They become friends because they are equals.
(b) Gilgamesh kills Enkidu.
(c) Enkdiu takes the new bride for himself.
(d) Enkidu kills Gilgamesh.

13. Gilgamesh asks Shamash to give Enkidu what?
(a) Victory over Humbaba
(b) A kingdom of his own
(c) A dream
(d) A wife

14. Who appointed Humbaba protector of the forest?
(a) Anu
(b) Shamash
(c) Ninsun
(d) Enlil

15. Where is Enkidu raised?
(a) The wilderness
(b) In a city full of Gilgamesh's enemies
(c) With the gods
(d) Uruk

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of night does Gilgamesh awaken Enkidu to tell him about his dream?

2. Who helps Enkidu and Gilgamesh defeat Humbaba?

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

4. Where does Gilgamesh pour out his fine-meal?

5. How many layers of armor has Humbaba put on when Gilgamesh and Enkidu arrive at the gate to the forest?

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