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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Good-Looks save Ishtar from Kurnugi?
(a) He exchanges himself to Ereshkigal for Ishtar.
(b) He pours the waters of life on her.
(c) He loosens her bonds.
(d) He kisses her.

2. What is Ishtar's relationship to Ereshkigal?
(a) Lovers.
(b) Cousins.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Mother and daughter.

3. What Phoenician god might be based on the legend of Ereshkigal and Nergal?
(a) Tanit.
(b) Baal.
(c) Adonis.
(d) Melqart.

4. What happens to the plant Gilgamesh took from the Apsu?
(a) It is eaten by Gilgamesh in a trick from Ishtar.
(b) It is stolen by a snake.
(c) It is lost in a storm.
(d) It is stolen by Ishtar.

5. How long does Enki believe the flood will last?
(a) Three years.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Forty days and forty nights.
(d) Three weeks.

6. Who is Ereshkigal?
(a) Goddess of the earth.
(b) Queen of the Underworld.
(c) Queen of the mountains.
(d) Goddess of the sun.

7. What ritual takes place during Dumuzi's time in Kurnugi?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Ritual cleansing.
(c) Lying-in-state.
(d) Weddings.

8. What god is sacrificed in order to create man?
(a) Ilawela.
(b) Enki.
(c) Ea.
(d) Marduk.

9. How does Ellil first punish mankind in the story of Atrahasis?
(a) He ignores their prayers for children.
(b) He unleashes the Sebitti.
(c) He orders a drought.
(d) He sends a flood.

10. About what does Ea question Nergal upon the arrival of Namtar?
(a) Nergal spat on Namtar upon his arrival.
(b) Nergal did not bow to Namtar.
(c) Nergal refused to look Namtar in the eyes.
(d) Nergal slapped Namtar in the face.

11. When sent from the Underworld, why is Namtar unable to locate Nergal?
(a) Nergal is dead.
(b) Nergal has been disguised.
(c) Namtar has been blinded.
(d) Namtar is sent to look for him in the wrong places.

12. What facet of mankind annoys Ellil to the point where he nearly casts a plague upon them?
(a) Their noise.
(b) Their smells.
(c) Their disrespect.
(d) Their questions.

13. When Nergal returns to the Underworld on his own, what happens when he finds Ereshkigal?
(a) They remain in bed for seven days.
(b) Ereshkigal orders for him to be tortured.
(c) He spits in Namtar's face.
(d) Ereshkigal strikes him in the face.

14. What does Belili offer in order to help her brother, Dumuzi?
(a) Belili will take Dumuzi's place in the Underworld for half the year.
(b) Belili will assist Ereshkigal so that the queen may occasionally leave the Underworld.
(c) Belili will take over Dumuzi's duties above the Underworld.
(d) Belili will take Dumuzi's place in the Underworld one month a year.

15. On their journey to the Pine Forest, what plagues Gilgamesh?
(a) Demons.
(b) Illness.
(c) Terrible dreams.
(d) Locusts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat does Ishtar use when addressing the gatekeeper of the Underworld?

2. For what errand does Ea create the man called Good-Looks?

3. In the Armana version, why does Ereshkigal send Namtar to the gods after the banquet?

4. Who is the king of the old gods?

5. After seven years of famine, to what does mankind resort?

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