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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Gilgamesh wait for Urshanabi to arrive?
(a) Twenty-four days and nights.
(b) Four days and nights.
(c) Ten days and nights.
(d) Untold days and nights.

2. What is the difficulty in getting the plant?
(a) Getting it before the waters of the river kill him.
(b) Getting it before an earthquake hits.
(c) Getting it before other animals get it.
(d) Getting it before nightfall.

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

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

5. What is Utnapishtim doing at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Eating dinner.
(b) Fishing in the Bitter River.
(c) Chopping firewood.
(d) Lying in his hammock on the further shore of the Bitter River.

6. Is man meant to be immortal?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Some.

7. How many straight poles must Gilgamesh cut down?
(a) One hundred.
(b) One hundred and ten.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Ten.

8. What does Urshanabi feel for Gilgamesh?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pity.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Irritation.

9. Where are Ishtar and her priestesses in Enkidu's dream?
(a) Gathered on top of the city wall.
(b) Gathered on top of the mountain.
(c) In the river.
(d) Surrounding him.

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

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

12. How does the King respond?
(a) He responds differently than he has in the past.
(b) He responds with a question.
(c) He does not answer.
(d) The same way he always has responded.

13. What does the scorpion-man urge Gilgamesh to do?
(a) Bring him with him.
(b) Continue his quest.
(c) Give up his quest.
(d) Leave him be.

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

15. Of what does Sabitu remind the King?
(a) The deadly Bitter River.
(b) The floods.
(c) The earthquakes.
(d) The Mashu Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately following the slaying of the creature, what happens to Enkidu?

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

3. What does Enkidu do to the tall cedar gate, the hunters, and Harim?

4. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's response?

5. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?

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