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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 the adventure the King proposes?
(a) A trip around the world.
(b) Traveling to the underworld.
(c) Killing the monster Humbaba.
(d) Dragon hunting.

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

3. How does the story of Gilgamesh begin?
(a) With the story of Gilgamesh's birth.
(b) With an account of the geography of his world.
(c) With an account of how Gilgamesh becomes King.
(d) With the story of how Gilgamesh gained immortality.

4. After Harim and Enkidu proceed to the temple, what does the young priestess do?
(a) She brings him into the temple.
(b) She leaves Enkidu at the gate.
(c) She speaks to Ishtar.
(d) She sends him in alone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Over whom does Anu hesitate to take the side of the common people?

2. In three days, what have Gilgamesh and Enkidu done?

3. What does the King attempt to do to the savage?

4. Ninsun blesses her son and Enkidu and asks Enkidu to do what?

5. What does Enkidu refuse to do?

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