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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After seven years of famine, to what does mankind resort?
(a) Eating dirt.
(b) Warring.
(c) Cannibalism.
(d) Prostitution.

2. In terms of population control, what do the gods agree to do with women?
(a) Not all women will be able to or allowed to give birth.
(b) Women will only be able to have sex once a month.
(c) Women will have to ask permission of the holy men to become pregnant.
(d) Women will have to pray to the gods to get pregnant.

3. How does Ut-napishtium prove to Gilgamesh how many days the latter man slept?
(a) Ut-napishtium planted a tree for each day Gilgamesh slept.
(b) Ut-napishtium put a cut on Gilgamesh's leg for each day.
(c) Ut-napishtium had Shamash stand as witness.
(d) Ut-napishtium's wife baked a loaf of bread for each day Gilgamesh slept.

4. What gesture does Ninsun extend before Gilgamesh and Enkidu go to stop Humbaba?
(a) She disowns Gilgamesh so that he will carry no guilt of abandonment with him on his journey.
(b) She blesses Enkidu.
(c) She asks Gilgamesh and Enkidu to pray with her.
(d) She adopts Enkidu as another son.

5. How does Ishtar being trapped in Kuranugi affect earth?
(a) The people begin to war against each other.
(b) The vegetation begins to die.
(c) The seas turn red.
(d) All sexual activity is stopped.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, what does Enkidu offer to retrieve for Gilgamesh?

2. What tool is used within the introductions to help the reader understand the time line of these stories?

3. What goddess is said to have been the mother of Gilgamesh?

4. What is the station of the god or goddess who creates man?

5. Who do the myths revolve around?

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