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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon their arrival, what do they find the citizens doing?
(a) Building the wall around the city.
(b) Already passing among themselves excited stories about Enkidu.
(c) Going about their usual business.
(d) Complaining to the King about Ekidu's behavior.

2. What happens at that moment?
(a) He awakes.
(b) He dies.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He calls for his mother.

3. Over whom does Anu hesitate to take the side of the common people?
(a) The elders.
(b) The other gods.
(c) Ishtar.
(d) The King.

4. What is the greatest danger to this city?
(a) Floods.
(b) The god Anu.
(c) Earthquakes.
(d) The monster Humbaba.

5. How does Ishtar feel about the elders' plan?
(a) She agrees with it at first.
(b) She is unsure about it.
(c) She disagrees with it.
(d) She agrees with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people over which Gilgamesh rules as king possess what?

2. The slightest touch of what waters causes immediate death?

3. How does the man respond to the girl?

4. What happens as Harim leads Enkidu into Uruk?

5. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?

(see the answer key)

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