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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Gilgamesh tell Enkidu's dream?
(a) Ishtar
(b) Ninsun
(c) Shamash
(d) The shepherds

2. What does the mountain watch over?
(a) The rising and setting of the sun
(b) The people of Uruk
(c) The tides of the sea
(d) The rising and setting of the moon

3. Why does Gilgamesh tell the scorpion man he has come to Mashu?
(a) To swim impossible seas
(b) To seek his own death
(c) To climb Mashu
(d) To speak of matters of life and death

4. What does Gilgamesh do with the horns of the bull of heaven?
(a) Hangs them above the door to his palace
(b) Sacrifices them to Shamash
(c) Hangs them in the temple
(d) Hangs them in his throne room

5. Who notices Gilgamesh's beauty after he has cleaned himself?
(a) Ishtar
(b) Humbaba
(c) Enkidu
(d) Shamash

6. What presumably is written on the scribes tablet in the underworld?
(a) Gilgamesh's name
(b) Shamash's name
(c) Enkidu's name
(d) Utnapishtim's name

7. When does Gilgamesh begin mourning for Enkidu?
(a) At sunset
(b) At noon
(c) At morning's first glimmer
(d) At midnight

8. What is the name of the mountain to where Gilgamesh travels?
(a) Ninunia
(b) Mashu
(c) Enkidush
(d) Shamun

9. How many pits did Ishtar dig for the lion?
(a) Seven and yet seven
(b) Fifty
(c) Ten
(d) Forty

10. Gilgamesh is afraid he will die in what?
(a) A feast
(b) Battle
(c) Disgrace
(d) Old age

11. How many double hours does Gilgamesh travel before finding light?
(a) Twenty
(b) Twelve
(c) Ten
(d) Fifteen

12. What does Urshanabi say will happen if the waters touch a man?
(a) He will die.
(b) He will sink to the bottom of the sea.
(c) He will become very ill.
(d) He will grow old.

13. Why does Gilgamesh say his appearance is so ragged?
(a) Because he has no way to clean himself
(b) Because he lost his old clothes
(c) Because he has traveled far
(d) Because he is mourning Enkidu

14. In what river do the two men wash their hands?
(a) Urukali
(b) Euphrates
(c) Nile
(d) Tigres

15. How far down does the mountain reach?
(a) The bottom of the sea
(b) Into the Underworld
(c) The top of the temple in Uruk
(d) The otherside of the world

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Urshanabi?

2. Who dreams the night of the heroes feast?

3. Enlil decrees that which man shall die?

4. What is the name of the gardener with whom Ishtar falls in love?

5. Gilgamesh refers to Enkidu as his friend and what?

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