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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Gilgamesh made travel in the boat impossible?
(a) By breaking the oarlocks.
(b) By breaking the oars.
(c) By destroying the deck.
(d) By destroying the sails.

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

3. What is Utnapishtim doing at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Chopping firewood.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Lying in his hammock on the further shore of the Bitter River.
(d) Fishing in the Bitter River.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Chapter Nine mark the beginning?

2. As he nears the Temple of Ishtar, what happens beside him?

3. What should Gilgamesh not do?

4. What do singers do?

5. What is the young priestess's worry?

(see the answer key)

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