2. 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 praying to Ishtar.
(c) He finds her crying.
(d) He finds her with another man.

3. What does Gilgamesh know about Harim?
(a) Her loyalties are with Ishtar.
(b) She is Anu's servant.
(c) Her charms will prevail over Enkidu with far more facility than force.
(d) She is in love with Ekidu.

4. What is the adventure the King proposes?
(a) Dragon hunting.
(b) Traveling to the underworld.
(c) A trip around the world.
(d) Killing the monster Humbaba.

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

6. What does Gilgamesh do to the beast?
(a) He throws a spear straight into its throat.
(b) He chops off its head.
(c) He forgives it.
(d) He breaks its wings.

7. Of what does Gilgamesh remind her?
(a) He cannot enter the underworld.
(b) There are no more monsters to be killed.
(c) He loves Enkidu.
(d) Every lover she has ever taken has been destroyed.

8. What is a city of fine houses, magnificent temples, marketplaces, and groves of trees?
(a) Uruk.
(b) Emar.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Larsa.

9. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?
(a) She goes to Enkidu.
(b) She says hello.
(c) She leaves the forest.
(d) She smiles at him.

10. What is done with the carcass of the beast?
(a) It is burned as an offering to the god Shamash.
(b) It is divided among the city's tradesmen.
(c) It is eaten by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
(d) It is destroyed.

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

12. What does Ishtar threaten to do If her father does not create the creature she requests?
(a) She will kill him.
(b) She will open the doors of the underworld to let the dead rise and outnumber the living.
(c) She will marry Gilgamesh.
(d) She will leave and never return.

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

14. What is the result of the King's request to continue building the walls higher and higher?
(a) The King monopolizes the time of the men.
(b) A monster becomes angry.
(c) Workers are exhausted.
(d) Wealth is lost.

15. What does Ninsun possess?
(a) The gifts of prophecy and the interpretation of dreams.
(b) A great deal of knowledge.
(c) Wealth.
(d) The ability to soothe those who are distraught.