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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enkidu refuse to do?
(a) Give Gilgamesh to the citizens.
(b) Slay Gilgamesh, who is such a worthy opponent.
(c) Allow Gilgamesh to leave.
(d) Forgive Gilgamesh.

2. Upon their arrival, what do they find the citizens doing?
(a) Complaining to the King about Ekidu's behavior.
(b) Going about their usual business.
(c) Already passing among themselves excited stories about Enkidu.
(d) Building the wall around the city.

3. What does Gilgamesh know about Harim?
(a) She is Anu's servant.
(b) Her loyalties are with Ishtar.
(c) Her charms will prevail over Enkidu with far more facility than force.
(d) She is in love with Ekidu.

4. In his dream, what is Gilgamesh doing?
(a) Walking through the forest.
(b) Speaking to his people.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Walking through the streets of Uruk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Gilgamesh agree to this?

2. How does the man respond to the girl?

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

4. What happens at that moment?

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

(see the answer key)

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