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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Enkidu?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He marries Ishtar.
(c) He contracts a fever and his dreams grow more intense.
(d) He becomes angry with Gilgamesh.

2. What does Gilgamesh wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) Why he lives by the Bitter River.
(b) How did he come to be immortal.
(c) If he is immortal.
(d) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.

3. What does Gilgamesh beg Enkidu to do?
(a) Forget his dream.
(b) Relate the dreams so that he can tell them to his mother.
(c) Stay awake.
(d) Leave Uruk.

4. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?
(a) A position of vulnerability.
(b) A puddle of mud.
(c) A closet.
(d) A room.

5. At the Temple of Ishtar, the citizens of Uruk will finally do what?
(a) Ask Ishtar for guidance.
(b) Destroy the temple.
(c) Choose a bride for their king, Gilgamesh.
(d) Pray to Ishtar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the gods want?

2. Immediately following the slaying of the creature, what happens to Enkidu?

3. What does Enkidu then hear?

4. How is Gilgamesh treated by Utnapishtim?

5. What does Gilgamesh assure Enkidu?

(see the answer key)

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