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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight?
(a) Gilgamesh kills Enkidu.
(b) They become friends because they are equals.
(c) Enkidu kills Gilgamesh.
(d) Enkdiu takes the new bride for himself.

2. Gilgamesh is ____________, while Enkidu is _____________.
(a) young, old
(b) humble, rash
(c) rash, humble
(d) A man, A woman

3. What two things does Enkidu do that make him like a man?
(a) Annoints his body with oil and puts on his garment
(b) Eats bread and sleeps with the woman
(c) Kills a lion and drinks strong wine
(d) Cuts down the forest and kills the wolves

4. Where is Enkidu raised?
(a) Uruk
(b) In a city full of Gilgamesh's enemies
(c) The wilderness
(d) With the gods

5. What do the people of Uruk do with the axe in Gilgamesh's dream?
(a) Celebrate around it
(b) Throw it in the river
(c) Use it to kill Gilgamesh
(d) Bury it

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the city Gilgamesh builds?

2. What does Enkidu have knowledge of after being with the woman?

3. What does Gilgamesh want to do in the Cedar Forest?

4. Gilgamesh thinks he is entitled to do what with new brides?

5. What does Gilgamesh's mother tell him the two dreams mean?

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