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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Enkidu agree to take part in this adventure?
(a) At first.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

2. What is the adventure the King proposes?
(a) Dragon hunting.
(b) A trip around the world.
(c) Traveling to the underworld.
(d) Killing the monster Humbaba.

3. Why has Gilgamesh come to seek his ancestor?
(a) So he can meet his family.
(b) So he can build a friendship with him.
(c) So he can tell Gilgamesh where Enkidu is and whether of not Gilgamesh must die.
(d) So he can become immortal.

4. Looking up at the towering peaks, what does Gilgamesh wonder?
(a) If he has truly reached the mountains, whose peaks touch the heavens, and whose foundations reach into the bowels of the earth.
(b) If the gods live on the tops of the peaks.
(c) Where Enkidu.
(d) How he will make it to the top.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this god ask Gilgamesh?

2. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?

3. What do the elders request of Enkidu?

4. How does the wild man find himself when sitting beside the young priestess?

5. Who robs a young hunter's traps?

(see the answer key)

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