View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Anu agree to Ishtar's request?
(a) Yes.
(b) Not initially.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, at first.

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

3. According to Ishtar's wishes, what does the creature do?
(a) It chases after Gilgamesh.
(b) It floods the river.
(c) It blocks the sun from reaching the earth.
(d) It cuts a swathe of death and destruction through the streets of Uruk.

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

5. Watching the battle between Humbaba and the two friends, what happens to the goddess Ishtar?
(a) She is saddened.
(b) She is moved from enraged to enamored.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She is amused.

Short Answer Questions

1. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?

2. What do scribes do?

3. What is the result of the King's request to continue building the walls higher and higher?

4. What does Ishtar threaten to do If her father does not create the creature she requests?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 320 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample