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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Utnapishtim doing at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Fishing in the Bitter River.
(b) Chopping firewood.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Lying in his hammock on the further shore of the Bitter River.

2. What does the god Shamash do to the sleeping Enkidu?
(a) He protects him.
(b) He praises him.
(c) He kills him.
(d) He scolds him.

3. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?
(a) A room.
(b) A puddle of mud.
(c) A closet.
(d) A position of vulnerability.

4. What eclipses even the entry of the wild man?
(a) An important event taking place in the city.
(b) The sun.
(c) An attack by a neighboring city.
(d) A day of celebration.

5. What does Utnapishtim demand to know about the stranger?
(a) If he is a King.
(b) If he is intelligent.
(c) Why he does not go home.
(d) His identity and how he came to be there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is man meant to be immortal?

2. Where are Ishtar and her priestesses in Enkidu's dream?

3. What does Utnapishtim agree to do?

4. After Harim and Enkidu proceed to the temple, what does the young priestess do?

5. What does Utnapishtim promise to do to the boatman?

(see the answer key)

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