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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What bird is sent out and does not return?
(a) A dove.
(b) A swallow.
(c) A crow.
(d) A crane.

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

4. What does Gilgamesh do when he notices this?
(a) He jumps in the water.
(b) He pursues the animal.
(c) He pursues the animals.
(d) He tries to revive the plant.

5. Utnapishtim does as he has been told by Ea while the other citizens of Shuruppak do what?
(a) Build an ark.
(b) Taunt him.
(c) Prepare for the flood.
(d) Go about their daily business.

6. Unable to revive his friend, what does Gilgamesh do?
(a) He goes to the forest.
(b) He goes to his goddess-mother to question his own mortality.
(c) He wanders aimlessly through the streets.
(d) He begs Shamash for help.

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

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

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

10. When Utnapishtim was mortal, what job did he have?,
(a) He was a carpenter.
(b) He was a merchant.
(c) He was a blacksmith.
(d) He was a cobbler.

11. At first, how does the wine maiden Sabitu feel about Gilgamesh?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She is excited.
(c) She is surprised.
(d) She is angry.

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

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

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

15. What does Utnapishtim begin at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) The story of how he became friends with the gods.
(b) The story of how he gained his immortality.
(c) The story of how he came to live by the Bitter River.
(d) The story of how he met Gilgamesh's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the god Shamash do to the sleeping Enkidu?

2. What does this plant do?

3. What happens as Gilgamesh bathes?

4. What does Gilgamesh smash?

5. What happens after eleven days and nights of this leg of Gilgamesh's journey?

(see the answer keys)

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