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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilgamesh react to his mother's warning?
(a) He cries.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He grows nervous.

2. Why does the young priestess do this?
(a) In order to be away from him.
(b) In order that Ishtar find favor in him.
(c) In order that she might adorn herself for the upcoming ceremony.
(d) In order that he might meet Ishtar.

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

4. Who robs a young hunter's traps?
(a) Enkidu.
(b) Anu.
(c) Ishtar.
(d) Aruru.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do scribes do?

2. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?

3. What do singers do?

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

5. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?

(see the answer key)

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