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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reasons does Enki give for instructing Antrahasis to build his boat?
(a) He wanted to be sure that the new race of humans would worship him.
(b) He was asked to intervene by Belet-ili.
(c) He wanted to be sure that there would still be life on earth.
(d) He wanted to humiliate Ellil.

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

3. What is Kurnugi?
(a) The gods' home.
(b) The sea.
(c) The collective temples of the gods.
(d) The Underworld.

4. Who is the king of the old gods?
(a) Marduk.
(b) Ea.
(c) Anu.
(d) Ellil.

5. What biblical character is similar to Atrahasis?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Noah.
(c) Cain.
(d) Abel.

6. In the Amarna version of Nergal and Ereshkigal's story, what does Ea send to the Underworld with Nergal?
(a) Fourteen demons.
(b) Fourteen horses.
(c) Fourteen warriors.
(d) Fourteen wolves.

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

8. How many gates must one pass through to reach Kurnugi?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

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

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

11. In the final tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, what does Enkidu offer to retrieve for Gilgamesh?
(a) A toy.
(b) Shamhat.
(c) A sword.
(d) A pomegranate seed.

12. What is the result of Enkidu and Gilgamesh's brutal battle?
(a) Gilgamesh is felled by Enkidu and pledges his servitude to him.
(b) They become enemies.
(c) Enkidu falls and becomes Gilgamesh's servant.
(d) They become friends.

13. After Gilgamesh passes through the mountains, what creatures does Gilgamesh mistakenly kill?
(a) The Gorgons.
(b) The taklimtu.
(c) The stone creatures.
(d) The Sebitti.

14. In the Babylonian version of Gilgamesh's story, what incites the battle between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
(a) Gilgamesh tries to seduce Shamkat.
(b) Enkidu did not bow to Gilgamesh.
(c) Enkidu kills Gilgamesh's mistress.
(d) Gilgamesh attempts to kill Shamkat.

15. Who is Namtar?
(a) Ereshkigal's brother.
(b) Ereshkigal's lover.
(c) Ereshkigal's judge.
(d) Ereshkigal's vizier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what tradition where these myths originally related?

2. What facet of mankind annoys Ellil to the point where he nearly casts a plague upon them?

3. How does Ishtar being trapped in Kuranugi affect earth?

4. For what reason, in the story of Atrahasis, do the gods create man?

5. What does Gilgamesh use to cross over the deadly water past the mountains and darkness?

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