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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishtar feel about the elders' plan?
(a) She is unsure about it.
(b) She agrees with it.
(c) She agrees with it at first.
(d) She disagrees with it.

2. What does the double-edged axe symbolize?
(a) An intelligent man.
(b) A dangerous man.
(c) A kind man.
(d) A nervous man.

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

4. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?
(a) She says hello.
(b) She leaves the forest.
(c) She goes to Enkidu.
(d) She smiles at him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the man respond to the girl?

2. What is the young priestess's worry?

3. What is a city of fine houses, magnificent temples, marketplaces, and groves of trees?

4. What is the greatest danger to this city?

5. The slightest touch of what waters causes immediate death?

(see the answer key)

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