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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Gilgamesh and Enkidu establish their friendship?
(a) With a kiss
(b) With a handshake
(c) By drinking each other's blood
(d) By announcing their pact in formal court

2. What does Enkidu tell Gilgamesh is guarding the Cedar Forest?
(a) A demon named Humbaba
(b) A pack of angry wolves
(c) A great angel with a sword
(d) The shepherds watch over the forest

3. Humbaba's mouth and breath are like what?
(a) Fire and Lightening
(b) Death and thunder
(c) A cave and hell
(d) Fire and death

4. Who interprets Gilgamesh's dreams?
(a) Enkidu
(b) Humbaba
(c) The shepherds
(d) Shamash

5. What do the eight winds do to Humbaba?
(a) Immobilize him
(b) Blow him into the sea
(c) Blow him to the underworld
(d) Blow down the trees on top of him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enkidu have knowledge of after being with the woman?

2. Why does Enkidu go to a celebration in Uruk?

3. How many days would it take a mortal man to travel as far as Gilgamesh and Enkidu cover in fifty double hours?

4. What is a talent?

5. What does Humbaba do to make Gilgamesh afraid?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect do the missing lines of interpretation have on Gilgamesh's dreams?

2. Why is Urshanabi prevented from immediately conducting Gilgamesh across the sea?

3. Why do the people of Uruk celebrate the axe in Gilgamesh's dream?

4. What legend surrounds Gilgamesh's birth?

5. Describe Gilgamesh's character.

6. Who does Gilgamesh command to mourn for Enkidu? How long does Gilgamesh mourn?

7. How does Enkidu describe the gate to the cedar forest?

8. What does Enkidu already know about death because of his upbringing in the wilderness?

9. Describe Ekidnu's character.

10. What does the barmaid tell Gilgamesh and what do her words foreshadow?

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