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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the King attempt to do to the savage?
(a) Hug him.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Push him aside.
(d) Ignore him.

3. Who robs a young hunter's traps?
(a) Ishtar.
(b) Enkidu.
(c) Aruru.
(d) Anu.

4. In what do Gilgamesh and Enkidu take part?
(a) Various contests and feats of strength.
(b) A feast.
(c) A festival.
(d) A dance.

5. Looking up at the towering peaks, what does Gilgamesh wonder?
(a) If he has truly reached the mountains, whose peaks touch the heavens, and whose foundations reach into the bowels of the earth.
(b) How he will make it to the top.
(c) If the gods live on the tops of the peaks.
(d) Where Enkidu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enkidu resolve to do?

2. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?

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

4. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?

5. How does the wild man find himself when sitting beside the young priestess?

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