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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the elders send to protect Gilgamesh?
(a) Enkidu and Gilgamesh's mother
(b) The Shepherds
(c) Enkidu
(d) Twenty men from Uruk

2. To whom does Gilgamesh tell Enkidu's dream?
(a) Ishtar
(b) The shepherds
(c) Ninsun
(d) Shamash

3. What is a recension?
(a) A time of economic depression
(b) A time when water recedes after a flood
(c) A revision of a text
(d) A period of extreme famine

4. Humbaba's mouth and breath are like what?
(a) Death and thunder
(b) A cave and hell
(c) Fire and death
(d) Fire and Lightening

5. By what phrase does Enkidu refer to Ninsun?
(a) Queen of men
(b) Mighty princess
(c) Wild cow
(d) goddess of the sky

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gilgamesh's mother pray to for protection for her son?

2. Why does Enkidu not like living in the city?

3. Line 42 at the end of Tablet 4 is called what kind of line?

4. What happens when Enkidu enters the underworld?

5. How many days would it take a mortal man to travel as far as Gilgamesh and Enkidu cover in fifty double hours?

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