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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ninsun ask her son to do?
(a) Describe the dream.
(b) Look for Enkidu.
(c) Leave her alone.
(d) Relax.

2. Immediately following the slaying of the creature, what happens to Enkidu?
(a) He becomes fearful of the gods.
(b) He dies.
(c) He begins having dreams full of ominous portents.
(d) He leaves Uruk.

3. In three days, what have Gilgamesh and Enkidu done?
(a) They ahve enjoyed days of festivities.
(b) They have reached the massive cedar gate that leads the way to Humbaba.
(c) They have returned to the forest.
(d) They have completed the wall.

4. What does Gilgamesh assure Enkidu?
(a) If he goes to the underworld, Gilgamesh will wait at the gate until they let Enkidu out again.
(b) If he goes back to the forest, Gilgamesh will send Harim with him.
(c) If he goes to the underworld, he goes alone.
(d) If he leaves Uruk, Gilgamesh will surely die.

5. Who is responsible for molding humans from inanimate clay?
(a) Ishtar.
(b) Anu.
(c) The elders.
(d) Aruru.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after eleven days and nights of this leg of Gilgamesh's journey?

2. How does the story of Gilgamesh begin?

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

4. What does the scorpion-man urge Gilgamesh to do?

5. What does the god Shamash do to the sleeping Enkidu?

(see the answer key)

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