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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 Gilgamesh know about Harim?
(a) She is in love with Ekidu.
(b) Her charms will prevail over Enkidu with far more facility than force.
(c) She is Anu's servant.
(d) Her loyalties are with Ishtar.

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

3. Finally, what do the city elders attempt to do?
(a) Prepare the King for his departure.
(b) Find a new King.
(c) Ignore the two men.
(d) Intervene.

4. Of what does Chapter Nine mark the beginning?
(a) The second episode of the epic of Enkidu.
(b) The third episode of the epic of Gilgamesh.
(c) The second episode of the epic of Gilgamesh.
(d) The third episode of the epic of Enkidu.

5. What do Gilgamesh and Enkidu grow to be?
(a) More like friends than brothers.
(b) Tolerable of one another.
(c) More like brothers than simple friends.
(d) Enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Anu agree to Ishtar's request?

2. What does this god ask Gilgamesh?

3. How does the man respond to the girl?

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

5. At the Temple of Ishtar, the citizens of Uruk will finally do what?

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