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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In three days, what have Gilgamesh and Enkidu done?
(a) They ahve enjoyed days of festivities.
(b) They have completed the wall.
(c) They have returned to the forest.
(d) They have reached the massive cedar gate that leads the way to Humbaba.

3. How does Gilgamesh react to his mother's warning?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He cries.
(c) He grows nervous.
(d) He becomes angry.

4. With the return of the two heroes, what happens in Uruk?
(a) A holiday is declared.
(b) Work on the wall continues.
(c) The gods arrive.
(d) An earthquake.

5. What eclipses even the entry of the wild man?
(a) An attack by a neighboring city.
(b) An important event taking place in the city.
(c) A day of celebration.
(d) The sun.

6. Ninsun blesses her son and Enkidu and asks Enkidu to do what?
(a) Allow Gilgamesh his freedom.
(b) Kill Gilgamesh.
(c) Protect himself.
(d) Protect Gilgamesh.

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

8. What do scribes do?
(a) They write stories of the men's adventures on papyrus.
(b) They engrave the stories onto stone or press the letters into wet clay.
(c) They teach Enkidu how to write.
(d) They tell the stories of the King and Enkidu on the walls of a tomb.

9. What is the greatest danger to this city?
(a) The god Anu.
(b) Floods.
(c) Earthquakes.
(d) The monster Humbaba.

10. What does Enkidu, along with three hundred armed warriors, do?
(a) He protects the creature.
(b) He chases the creature from the city.
(c) He begs for Gilgamesh's help in killing the beast.
(d) He comes out to meet the beast.

11. By whom is Gilgamesh welcomed?
(a) His mother.
(b) Ishtar.
(c) His father.
(d) Anu.

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

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

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

15. Does Enkidu agree to take part in this adventure?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) At first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Enkidu enchanted by the young girl?

2. After Harim and Enkidu proceed to the temple, what does the young priestess do?

3. What do singers do?

4. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?

5. Where does the anticipated battle between the King and the savage take place?

(see the answer keys)

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