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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 wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.
(b) Why he lives by the Bitter River.
(c) How did he come to be immortal.
(d) If he is immortal.

2. How long does the storm last?
(a) For ten days and nights.
(b) For one hundred days and nights.
(c) For forty days and nights.
(d) For six days and nights.

3. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?
(a) He tells her a part of the story.
(b) He tells her nothing.
(c) He tells the story of Enkidu's death and his terrible journey.
(d) He lies about his travels.

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

5. What does Urshanabi offer Gilgamesh?
(a) A new boat.
(b) Everything.
(c) Another option.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is man meant to be immortal?

2. At first, how does the wine maiden Sabitu feel about Gilgamesh?

3. Why has Gilgamesh come to seek his ancestor?

4. What request is Gilgamesh unable to do?

5. What does the scorpion-man describe to Gilgamesh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gilgamesh respond to this dream? What happens to Enkidu?

2. What takes place in Enkidu's dream?

3. Of what does Sabitu remind Gilgamesh?

4. How does Gilgamesh arrive at the short of the Bitter River?

5. Why is the crow sent out? Why does it not return?

6. How does Utnapishtim's wife describe Gilgamesh?

7. After Gilgamesh tells his story, how does Utnapishtim respond?

8. How does Gilgamesh lose the magic weed?

9. What does Enkidu curse?

10. What happens after the slaying of the Bull of Heaven?

(see the answer keys)

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