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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.
(b) If he is immortal.
(c) How did he come to be immortal.
(d) Why he lives by the Bitter River.

2. What prevents Gilgamesh from doing any further damage?
(a) A god calls his name.
(b) The boatman demands to know who dares to damage the boat of Utnapishtim.
(c) Lightning strikes the boat and destroys it.
(d) He collapses.

3. Why does Gilgamesh lift a stone and throw it down onto the boat?
(a) He is afraid of the boatman.
(b) He is unable to control his impatient anger.
(c) He hopes to wake the boatman.
(d) He does not know what to do.

4. Looking up at the towering peaks, what does Gilgamesh wonder?
(a) How he will make it to the top.
(b) Where Enkidu.
(c) If the gods live on the tops of the peaks.
(d) If he has truly reached the mountains, whose peaks touch the heavens, and whose foundations reach into the bowels of the earth.

5. Does Utnapishtim agree to aid Gilgamesh in his impossible mission?
(a) No.
(b) Not necessarily.
(c) Yes.
(d) At first.

6. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?
(a) He tells the story of Enkidu's death and his terrible journey.
(b) He tells her nothing.
(c) He lies about his travels.
(d) He tells her a part of the story.

7. Why does she feel this way about Gilgamesh?
(a) He is very handsome.
(b) He came upon her very quietly.
(c) He has disturbed her peace.
(d) He has wild and unkempt looks.

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

9. What does this plant do?
(a) It will make one immortal, if touched.
(b) It will create endless happiness, if smelled.
(c) It will renew youth, if eaten.
(d) It will kill one, if eaten.

10. What does Enkidu do to the tall cedar gate, the hunters, and Harim?
(a) He thanks them.
(b) He wonders what has happened to them.
(c) He curses them.
(d) He misses them.

11. What happens to Enkidu?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He marries Ishtar.
(c) He becomes angry with Gilgamesh.
(d) He contracts a fever and his dreams grow more intense.

12. What does Gilgamesh assure Enkidu?
(a) If he goes to the underworld, Gilgamesh will wait at the gate until they let Enkidu out again.
(b) If he goes to the underworld, he goes alone.
(c) If he goes back to the forest, Gilgamesh will send Harim with him.
(d) If he leaves Uruk, Gilgamesh will surely die.

13. Why does Gilgamesh lament to Utnapishtim?
(a) He realizes he can become immortal.
(b) He realizes that Utnapishtim wants nothing to do with him.
(c) He realizes that his quest is, indeed, hopeless.
(d) He realizes that his quest will be much longer than expected.

14. What does Ea tell Utnapishtim he must do?
(a) Construct a building.
(b) Construct a train.
(c) Construct an ark.
(d) Construct a wagon.

15. For whom does Utnapishtim prepare a feast?
(a) His family.
(b) The gods.
(c) The people who survived the flood.
(d) The animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Utnapishtim order the boatman to take Gilgamesh?

2. Who blesses Utnapishtim and his wife, making them immortal?

3. How does the wife of Utnapishtim describe Gilgamesh?

4. For how long does Enkidu sleep?

5. What does Sabitu do after exiting her house?

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