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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Enkidu hurries to the Temple of Ishtar to look for Harim?
(a) He finds the courtyard empty and the gates locked.
(b) He finds her crying.
(c) He finds her with another man.
(d) He finds her praying to Ishtar.

2. What is natural to man?
(a) Love.
(b) Mortality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Honor.

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

4. Why does Gilgamesh pour meal on the earth?
(a) To appease the gods.
(b) To feed the birds.
(c) To grow crops.
(d) To protect their feet as they walk.

5. Why do the hunter and his father head to the city?
(a) To report the matter to the King.
(b) To find a god to help them.
(c) To find someone to kill Enkidu.
(d) To complain about Gilgamesh's behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ninsun possess?

2. What does Ishtar ask her father Anu to create?

3. Of what does Gilgamesh remind her?

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

5. What do the elders request of Enkidu?

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