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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enkidu do to the tall cedar gate, the hunters, and Harim?
(a) He thanks them.
(b) He misses them.
(c) He wonders what has happened to them.
(d) He curses them.

2. What does Gilgamesh wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) If he is immortal.
(b) How did he come to be immortal.
(c) Why he lives by the Bitter River.
(d) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.

3. What does Gilgamesh reason?
(a) Because Ishtar is unkind, she should be killed.
(b) Because they committed all their acts together, they cannot die separately.
(c) Because Enkidu is not the King, he should be the only one banished.
(d) Because the gods like him, he should become immortal.

4. What does Enkido do when Gilgamesh attempts to enter?
(a) He allows him to enter.
(b) He stabs him through with a sword.
(c) He blocks his path.
(d) He ignores him.

5. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?
(a) Relate the dreams so that he can tell them to his mother.
(b) Forget his dream.
(c) Leave Uruk.
(d) Stay awake.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Gilgamesh tells his story, how does Utnapishtim answer?

2. Why does the young priestess do this?

3. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's appearance?

4. What do most of the gods want?

5. What does Enkidu then hear?

(see the answer key)

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