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

2. What does Gilgamesh do for many days and nights?
(a) Wanders on foot.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Cries.
(d) Sleeps.

3. What is Utnapishtim doing at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Chopping firewood.
(b) Lying in his hammock on the further shore of the Bitter River.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Fishing in the Bitter River.

4. Utnapishtim does as he has been told by Ea while the other citizens of Shuruppak do what?
(a) Taunt him.
(b) Prepare for the flood.
(c) Build an ark.
(d) Go about their daily business.

5. Gilgamesh must traverse the deep caverns beneath the Mountains of Mashu in order to reach whom?
(a) Siva.
(b) Utnapishtim.
(c) Shamash.
(d) Shiva.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Enkidu?

2. What request is Gilgamesh unable to do?

3. What does Utnapishtim begin at the beginning of this chapter?

4. How is Gilgamesh treated by Utnapishtim?

5. What does Gilgamesh assure Enkidu?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what does Sabitu remind Gilgamesh?

2. What does Gilgamesh do when he realizes his quest is hopeless? How does Utnapishtim respond?

3. How does Gilgamesh lose the magic weed?

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

5. What happens because of Gilgamesh's impatience?

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

7. How does Utnapishtim respond to Gilgamesh's quest?

8. What does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh that would allow him to return to Uruk honorably?

9. What must Gilgamesh do to reach Utnapishtim?

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

(see the answer keys)

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