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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the citizens feel about Enkido's behavior?
(a) Excited.
(b) Worried.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Angry.

2. Who orders the gatekeeper to open the door to the underworld for Gilgamesh?
(a) Ea
(b) Enil.
(c) Shamash.
(d) Anu.

3. When the water recedes on what is Utnapishtim's construction caught?
(a) The top of a mountain.
(b) A cliff.
(c) A deep sea crater.
(d) A volcano.

4. What does one of the scorpion-men do upon seeing Gilgamesh?
(a) He attempts to kill him.
(b) He bows down to his King.
(c) He asks his identity.
(d) He tells him to turn around and go home.

5. What happens when both Gilgamesh and Urshanabi take a morsel of the plant?
(a) They are happier than they ever imagined they could be.
(b) They become violently ill.
(c) They become immortal.
(d) They suddenly feel all heaviness drop from their limbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Utnapishtim agree to aid Gilgamesh in his impossible mission?

2. What ensues between these two men?

3. At first, how does the wine maiden Sabitu feel about Gilgamesh?

4. How does Gilgamesh react to his mother's warning?

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

(see the answer key)

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