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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should Gilgamesh not do?
(a) Be near Endiku.
(b) Leave his home.
(c) Speak to Ishtar.
(d) Walk the streets or approach the Temple of Ishtar.

2. What does Gilgamesh wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.
(b) If he is immortal.
(c) Why he lives by the Bitter River.
(d) How did he come to be immortal.

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

4. Why do the elders suggest that a man be created?
(a) To be Gilgamesh's companion.
(b) To destroy Gilgamesh.
(c) To be Gilgamesh's brother.
(d) To scare Gilgamesh.

5. What does Utnapishtim demand to know about the stranger?
(a) If he is intelligent.
(b) His identity and how he came to be there.
(c) If he is a King.
(d) Why he does not go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the young girl feel when she sees the man?

2. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?

3. What does Utnapishtim promise to do to the boatman?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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