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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?
(a) Enkidu.
(b) The peace and quiet.
(c) The animals and leaves and broken sunlight of the forest.
(d) The smells of nature.

5. What do scribes do?
(a) They teach Enkidu how to write.
(b) They write stories of the men's adventures on papyrus.
(c) They tell the stories of the King and Enkidu on the walls of a tomb.
(d) They engrave the stories onto stone or press the letters into wet clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Gilgamesh agree to this?

2. The people over which Gilgamesh rules as king possess what?

3. What do singers do?

4. What does Ninsun possess?

5. What do the elders request of Enkidu?

(see the answer key)

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