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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ninsun possess?
(a) The ability to soothe those who are distraught.
(b) The gifts of prophecy and the interpretation of dreams.
(c) A great deal of knowledge.
(d) Wealth.

2. What is a city of fine houses, magnificent temples, marketplaces, and groves of trees?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Uruk.
(c) Emar.
(d) Larsa.

3. Why do the hunter and his father head to the city?
(a) To complain about Gilgamesh's behavior.
(b) To report the matter to the King.
(c) To find a god to help them.
(d) To find someone to kill Enkidu.

4. What is this dream, according to Gilgamesh's mother?
(a) Just a dream.
(b) A sign of what good is to come.
(c) An evil portent.
(d) Caused by the large meal he had the night before.

5. What happens at that moment?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He awakes.
(c) He dies.
(d) He calls for his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?

2. What does the double-edged axe symbolize?

3. How does the story of Gilgamesh begin?

4. How does the man respond to the girl?

5. What should Gilgamesh not do?

(see the answer key)

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