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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What eclipses even the entry of the wild man?
(a) An important event taking place in the city.
(b) An attack by a neighboring city.
(c) The sun.
(d) A day of celebration.

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

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

4. What is this dream, according to Gilgamesh's mother?
(a) A sign of what good is to come.
(b) Caused by the large meal he had the night before.
(c) Just a dream.
(d) An evil portent.

5. Of what does Gilgamesh remind her?
(a) He loves Enkidu.
(b) He cannot enter the underworld.
(c) There are no more monsters to be killed.
(d) Every lover she has ever taken has been destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ninsun do at the temple?

2. Seeing his bravery and his skill in battle, with whom does Ishtar fall in love?

3. Watching the battle between Humbaba and the two friends, what happens to the goddess Ishtar?

4. In three days, what have Gilgamesh and Enkidu done?

5. Why does the young priestess do this?

(see the answer key)

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