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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Looking up at the towering peaks, what does Gilgamesh wonder?
(a) How he will make it to the top.
(b) Where Enkidu.
(c) If the gods live on the tops of the peaks.
(d) If he has truly reached the mountains, whose peaks touch the heavens, and whose foundations reach into the bowels of the earth.

2. Where are Ishtar and her priestesses in Enkidu's dream?
(a) Gathered on top of the city wall.
(b) Surrounding him.
(c) Gathered on top of the mountain.
(d) In the river.

3. What do singers do?
(a) They perform the King's favorite show.
(b) They make up songs about the adventure.
(c) They sing the King's favorite songs.
(d) They make up songs about Enkidu.

4. What does Gilgamesh reason?
(a) Because the gods like him, he should become immortal.
(b) Because they committed all their acts together, they cannot die separately.
(c) Because Ishtar is unkind, she should be killed.
(d) Because Enkidu is not the King, he should be the only one banished.

5. As he nears the Temple of Ishtar, what happens beside him?
(a) A double-sided axe slices by and buries itself in the pavement .
(b) Ishtar joins him on his walk.
(c) Endiku appears.
(d) The earth collapses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Sabitu remind the King?

2. What does the double-edged axe symbolize?

3. What is done with the entrails?

4. Why does Gilgamesh believe he is invincible?

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

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