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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the storm last?
(a) For one hundred days and nights.
(b) For forty days and nights.
(c) For six days and nights.
(d) For ten days and nights.

2. How has Gilgamesh made travel in the boat impossible?
(a) By destroying the sails.
(b) By breaking the oars.
(c) By destroying the deck.
(d) By breaking the oarlocks.

3. Why has Gilgamesh come to seek his ancestor?
(a) So he can build a friendship with him.
(b) So he can meet his family.
(c) So he can become immortal.
(d) So he can tell Gilgamesh where Enkidu is and whether of not Gilgamesh must die.

4. Why does the dove that is released return?
(a) Having found no place to land.
(b) It is afraid to go to land.
(c) It misses the creatures on the ark.
(d) It has been told to return.

5. How does the scorpion man's wife reply?
(a) Do not kill the stranger. Let him speak.
(b) This is Gilgamesh, our King.
(c) Allow the stranger to stay.
(d) The stranger is two-thirds god and one-third man.

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

7. 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 tells her a part of the story.
(d) He lies about his travels.

8. What happens after eleven days and nights of this leg of Gilgamesh's journey?
(a) He meets Enkidu.
(b) He sees Anu.
(c) He is in complete darkness.
(d) He see a trace of light.

9. What does Gilgamesh do for many days and nights?
(a) Cries.
(b) Wanders on foot.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Dreams.

10. Of what does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh?
(a) A magic weed that grows at the bottom of the Bitter River.
(b) A magic tree that grows on the banks of the Bitter River.
(c) A magic flower that grows in a nearby field.
(d) A magic bush that grows on a cliff.

11. What does Sabitu do after he thanks her?
(a) She laughs at him.
(b) She ignores him.
(c) She points him toward the Bitter River.
(d) She shoves him out the door.

12. What does the scorpion-man describe to Gilgamesh?
(a) His ancestors.
(b) The path to take.
(c) The perils of passing through the caverns.
(d) The terain of the surrounding land.

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

14. What does Gilgamesh smash?
(a) The oarlocks.
(b) The deck.
(c) The oars.
(d) The sails.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gilgamesh lament to Utnapishtim?

2. Utnapishtim does as he has been told by Ea while the other citizens of Shuruppak do what?

3. Where do the two decide to rest and sleep?

4. What does the boatman tell Gilgamesh?

5. Through the trees, what does Gilgamesh see?

(see the answer keys)

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