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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does King Gilgamesh surprise his people, regarding this person?
(a) He does not want to fight Anu alone.
(b) He plans to fight Aruru.
(c) He will marry Ishtar.
(d) He does not offer to fight Enkidu himself.

2. After Harim and Enkidu proceed to the temple, what does the young priestess do?
(a) She leaves Enkidu at the gate.
(b) She brings him into the temple.
(c) She sends him in alone.
(d) She speaks to Ishtar.

3. How does the young girl feel when she sees the man?
(a) She is terrified.
(b) She is irritated.
(c) She is excited.
(d) She is unsure.

4. What is the young priestess's worry?
(a) Enkidu will become violent in town.
(b) Enkidu will be treated no better than a captive animal.
(c) Enkidu will be treated like a King.
(d) Enkidu will betray her.

5. What does Ishtar threaten to do If her father does not create the creature she requests?
(a) She will kill him.
(b) She will marry Gilgamesh.
(c) She will open the doors of the underworld to let the dead rise and outnumber the living.
(d) She will leave and never return.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh do for many days and nights?

2. Why has Gilgamesh come to seek his ancestor?

3. Why do the hunter and his father head to the city?

4. What does Ishtar ask her father Anu to create?

5. Why does the young priestess do this?

(see the answer key)

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