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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enkidu, along with three hundred armed warriors, do?
(a) He begs for Gilgamesh's help in killing the beast.
(b) He comes out to meet the beast.
(c) He protects the creature.
(d) He chases the creature from the city.

2. What happens as Harim leads Enkidu into Uruk?
(a) He is taunted.
(b) He is ignored.
(c) He is besieged by curious onlookers.
(d) He is captured.

3. Upon their arrival, what do they find the citizens doing?
(a) Complaining to the King about Ekidu's behavior.
(b) Going about their usual business.
(c) Building the wall around the city.
(d) Already passing among themselves excited stories about Enkidu.

4. What does this god ask Gilgamesh?
(a) Why he has not found Enkidu.
(b) Where he has been.
(c) How he came to be here in the garden, so gaunt and disheveled.
(d) Why he does not turn back.

5. What is the adventure the King proposes?
(a) Killing the monster Humbaba.
(b) Traveling to the underworld.
(c) A trip around the world.
(d) Dragon hunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the goddess Ishtar feel about what has taken place?

2. According to Ishtar's wishes, what does the creature do?

3. Where does the anticipated battle between the King and the savage take place?

4. What does one of the scorpion-men do upon seeing Gilgamesh?

5. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?

(see the answer key)

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