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

2. What does Enkidu, along with three hundred armed warriors, do?
(a) He protects the creature.
(b) He comes out to meet the beast.
(c) He chases the creature from the city.
(d) He begs for Gilgamesh's help in killing the beast.

3. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?
(a) A closet.
(b) A puddle of mud.
(c) A position of vulnerability.
(d) A room.

4. What is done with the carcass of the beast?
(a) It is destroyed.
(b) It is burned as an offering to the god Shamash.
(c) It is divided among the city's tradesmen.
(d) It is eaten by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

5. What do Gilgamesh and Enkidu grow to be?
(a) More like brothers than simple friends.
(b) Enemies.
(c) More like friends than brothers.
(d) Tolerable of one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finally, what do the city elders attempt to do?

2. How does Ishtar feel about the elders' plan?

3. Does Enkidu agree to take part in this adventure?

4. What does Enkidu do when Gilgamesh gathers to him an arsenal of finely wrought weaponry and lays it before his Enkidu's feet?

5. What does Ishtar ask her father Anu to create?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ishtar threaten Gilgamesh?

2. How does Ishtar react to the battle between Humbaba and the two friends?

3. Why does Ishtar gather together all the gods?

4. What do the hunter and his father find in Uruk?

5. What takes place when Enkidu comes upon the King?

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

7. What takes place in Gilgamesh's dream?

8. What happens when Enkidu begins to overcome Gilgamesh?

9. What is the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

10. What eclipses Enkidu entrance into the city?

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