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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most of the gods want?
(a) Gilgamesh to protect Enkidu.
(b) Ishtar to exile both Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
(c) Ishtar to leave Enkidu alone.
(d) Enkidu to be killed.

2. Where does Utnapishtim order the boatman to take Gilgamesh?
(a) A place where he can wash and change into more clothing appropriate for his journey home.
(b) The underworld.
(c) Home, immediately.
(d) Another town on the Bitter River.

3. Where do the two decide to rest and sleep?
(a) At a spot with a fresh spring.
(b) By the river.
(c) In a cave.
(d) On the edge of the cliff.

4. 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.

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

6. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's response?
(a) He is pleased.
(b) He is displeased.
(c) He is saddened.
(d) He is surprised.

7. What does Urshanabi offer Gilgamesh?
(a) Another option.
(b) Everything.
(c) A new boat.
(d) Nothing.

8. What happens to Gilgamesh, after reaching the plant?
(a) The cliff shakes him off the edge.
(b) The animals chase him into the forest.
(c) The night sends him into a cave.
(d) The water spits him onto the opposing shore.

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

10. What does this god ask Gilgamesh?
(a) How he came to be here in the garden, so gaunt and disheveled.
(b) Why he has not found Enkidu.
(c) Where he has been.
(d) Why he does not turn back.

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

12. For how long does Enkidu sleep?
(a) Fifteen days.
(b) Fourteen days.
(c) Thirtten days.
(d) Twelve days.

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

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

15. What does Gilgamesh spot?
(a) The boat that is to carry him across.
(b) The island with the man in a hammock.
(c) The cliff off which he must jump.
(d) The mountain he must climb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Gilgamesh treated by Utnapishtim?

2. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's appearance?

3. What happens to Enkidu?

4. What does the boatman tell Gilgamesh?

5. What does Gilgamesh reason?

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