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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sabitu explain that Gilgamesh will find?
(a) A high mountain.
(b) An island with a man in a hammock.
(c) A boat and a boat pilot named Urshanabi.
(d) A steep cliff.

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

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

4. How is Gilgamesh treated by Utnapishtim?
(a) He is warmly welcomed.
(b) He is rebuked.
(c) He is humiliated.
(d) He is ignored.

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

6. What does Gilgamesh reason?
(a) Because Ishtar is unkind, she should be killed.
(b) Because the gods like him, he should become immortal.
(c) Because Enkidu is not the King, he should be the only one banished.
(d) Because they committed all their acts together, they cannot die separately.

7. How does the wife of Utnapishtim describe Gilgamesh?
(a) As an odd looking man.
(b) A filthy mess.
(c) A stranger.
(d) As a young man, thin and haggered, but otherwise like to she and her husband.

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

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

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

11. What does the god Shamash do to the sleeping Enkidu?
(a) He scolds him.
(b) He kills him.
(c) He protects him.
(d) He praises him.

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

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

14. What does Sabitu ask the King?
(a) What he seeks.
(b) Why he seeks his ancestor.
(c) If she may join him on his journey.
(d) Why he does not go home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Gilgamesh bathes?

2. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?

3. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?

4. What happens when both Gilgamesh and Urshanabi take a morsel of the plant?

5. How does the King respond?

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