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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilgamesh want to do in the Cedar Forest?
(a) Learn to live with the animals like Enkidu
(b) To meet the shepherds
(c) Go hunting
(d) Cut down all the trees

2. What do the axe and meteorite signify in relationship to Enkidu?
(a) They are weapons Enkidu will use to kill Gilgamesh
(b) They are weapons Gilgamesh will use to destroy Uruk
(c) They predict how he will die
(d) They are elements of the relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh

3. How many goblets of strong drink does Enkidu drink after the courtesan teaches him to drink properly?
(a) Ten
(b) Seven
(c) Sixteen
(d) Two

4. How many layers of armor does Humbaba usually wear?
(a) Ten
(b) Seven
(c) Six
(d) One

5. What type of drink is Enkidu used to drinking?
(a) The wine drunk in the city
(b) The milk of wild animals
(c) Water from a stream
(d) Cow's milk

Short Answer Questions

1. What university in Pennsylvania owns a large portion of the Gilgamesh tablets?

2. What happens to those who go to the cedar forest?

3. Why do the gods create Enkidu?

4. This person is created to keep Gilgamesh occupied.

5. What is the woman called who seduces Enkidu?

(see the answer key)

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