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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. Does Enkidu agree to take part in this adventure?
(a) At first.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

2. What does Gilgamesh know about Harim?
(a) She is in love with Ekidu.
(b) Her loyalties are with Ishtar.
(c) Her charms will prevail over Enkidu with far more facility than force.
(d) She is Anu's servant.

3. As he nears the Temple of Ishtar, what happens beside him?
(a) A double-sided axe slices by and buries itself in the pavement .
(b) Ishtar joins him on his walk.
(c) Endiku appears.
(d) The earth collapses.

4. What does Enkidu do when Gilgamesh gathers to him an arsenal of finely wrought weaponry and lays it before his Enkidu's feet?
(a) He still turns away.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He agrees to take part in the adventure.
(d) He laughs at him.

5. What is a city of fine houses, magnificent temples, marketplaces, and groves of trees?
(a) Uruk.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Emar.
(d) Larsa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is done with the carcass of the beast?

2. Who does Ishtar gather together?

3. Who is responsible for molding humans from inanimate clay?

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

5. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ishtar gather together all the gods?

2. How does the King respond when the elders try to intervene?

3. What takes place in Gilgamesh's dream?

4. What does Ninsun say about this dream?

5. How are the heroes greeted by the citizens of Uruk?

6. How is Enkidu convinced to join the King on his adventure?

7. What happens to the hunter? What does he do in reaction to this?

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

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

10. What is the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

(see the answer keys)

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