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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?
(a) Complain to the King.
(b) Complain to the other citizens.
(c) Complain to Anu.
(d) Complain to the gods.

2. How does the story of Gilgamesh begin?
(a) With an account of how Gilgamesh becomes King.
(b) With an account of the geography of his world.
(c) With the story of Gilgamesh's birth.
(d) With the story of how Gilgamesh gained immortality.

3. What do singers do?
(a) They perform the King's favorite show.
(b) They sing the King's favorite songs.
(c) They make up songs about Enkidu.
(d) They make up songs about the adventure.

4. What does Enkidu resolve to do?
(a) Meet with the gods.
(b) Stop Gilgamesh.
(c) Leave Gilgamesh and his new life.
(d) Accompany his friend and to make the needed sacrifice.

5. Watching the battle between Humbaba and the two friends, what happens to the goddess Ishtar?
(a) She becomes angry.
(b) She is moved from enraged to enamored.
(c) She is saddened.
(d) She is amused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ninsun ask her son to do?

2. Of what is Anu god?

3. As he nears the Temple of Ishtar, what happens beside him?

4. At the Temple of Ishtar, the citizens of Uruk will finally do what?

5. What happens when Enkidu hurries to the Temple of Ishtar to look for Harim?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the main gods Gilgamesh's people possess?

2. How do the citizens, Enkidu, and Gilgamesh fight the bull?

3. Why does Ishtar gather together all the gods?

4. Of what does Gilgamesh remind Ishtar? How does she react?

5. What does Ninsun say about this dream?

6. What happens when Enkidu begins to overcome Gilgamesh?

7. How does Gilgamesh react to his mother's warning?

8. How does this wall affect the people of Uruk?

9. Why does Gilgamesh go to his mother for advice?

10. What adventure does the King propose? What is Enkidu's reaction?

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