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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Enkidu live?
(a) A pack of wolves
(b) A group of shepherds
(c) The woman
(d) The gods

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

3. What does Enkidu do with the animals he finds in the woods?
(a) Teaches them to attack Gilgamesh
(b) Frees them from traps
(c) Kills them for the fur
(d) Captures them to sell in the city

4. How many days does the journey to the Cedar Forest take?
(a) Six days
(b) One week
(c) Six months
(d) One month

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

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

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

8. Who does Gilgamesh ask to bring him a dream? Or another reference for Shamash?
(a) Ocean
(b) Mountain
(c) Ea
(d) Ninsun

9. Who reminds Gilgamesh of his boast in Uruk?
(a) Enkidu
(b) Ninsun
(c) Shamash
(d) Ishtar

10. What does Gilgamesh's mother tell him the two dreams mean?
(a) That he will have a son
(b) That his death is imminent
(c) That the city of Uruk will fall
(d) That a companion is coming to help Gilgamesh

11. What is the name of the city Gilgamesh builds?
(a) Ukur
(b) Urukali
(c) Uruk
(d) Ruku

12. How long are Enkidu and the woman together?
(a) A fortnight
(b) One night
(c) An hour
(d) A week

13. Who does Gilgamesh's mother pray to for protection for her son?
(a) Enkidu
(b) The sun god
(c) The god of the forest
(d) Humbaba

14. How far does Enkidu say the cedar forest extends?
(a) One hundred acres
(b) Ten thousand miles
(c) A distance of ten thousand double-hours
(d) A thousand acres

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Humbaba promises to be Gilgamesh's what if left alive?

2. Who helps Enkidu and Gilgamesh defeat Humbaba?

3. From where does Gilgamesh's mother say his companion will come?

4. What falls to the earth in Gilgamesh's dream?

5. What is a talent?

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