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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the storm last?
(a) For ten days and nights.
(b) For one hundred days and nights.
(c) For forty days and nights.
(d) For six days and nights.

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

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

4. Why does Shamash not know the ways of the underworld?
(a) He is a new god.
(b) He only knows the ways of the light.
(c) He does not like the underworld.
(d) He is not a very intelligent god.

5. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?
(a) Leave Uruk.
(b) Stay awake.
(c) Forget his dream.
(d) Relate the dreams so that he can tell them to his mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Enkidu do when Gilgamesh gathers to him an arsenal of finely wrought weaponry and lays it before his Enkidu's feet?

3. How are Gilgamesh and Urshanabi greeted back to Uruk?

4. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?

5. What does Shamash advise Gilgamesh to do?

(see the answer key)

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