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

2. How has Gilgamesh made travel in the boat impossible?
(a) By breaking the oars.
(b) By destroying the sails.
(c) By destroying the deck.
(d) By breaking the oarlocks.

3. Looking up at the towering peaks, what does Gilgamesh wonder?
(a) Where Enkidu.
(b) If the gods live on the tops of the peaks.
(c) If he has truly reached the mountains, whose peaks touch the heavens, and whose foundations reach into the bowels of the earth.
(d) How he will make it to the top.

4. Why does she feel this way about Gilgamesh?
(a) He has wild and unkempt looks.
(b) He is very handsome.
(c) He came upon her very quietly.
(d) He has disturbed her peace.

5. Through the trees, what does Gilgamesh see?
(a) The face of Shamash.
(b) The face of Ishtar.
(c) The face of Ellil.
(d) The face of Anu.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who blesses Utnapishtim and his wife, making them immortal?

3. When the water recedes on what is Utnapishtim's construction caught?

4. How does the scorpion man's wife reply?

5. What does one of the scorpion-men do upon seeing Gilgamesh?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What must Gilgamesh do to reach Utnapishtim?

3. What does Utnapishtim begin?

4. What does the King do when he sees Uruk?

5. What does Utnapishtim agree to tell Gilgamesh?

6. How does Chapter Nine begin?

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

8. How does Gilgamesh lose the magic weed?

9. What does Enkidu curse?

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

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