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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What must Gilgamesh do for Ishtar?
(a) Kill Enkidu.
(b) Visit the underworld.
(c) Kill another monster.
(d) Marry her.

3. In what do Gilgamesh and Enkidu take part?
(a) A dance.
(b) Various contests and feats of strength.
(c) A feast.
(d) A festival.

4. What is the result of the King's request to continue building the walls higher and higher?
(a) The King monopolizes the time of the men.
(b) Wealth is lost.
(c) Workers are exhausted.
(d) A monster becomes angry.

5. With the mothers robbed of their sons and the young girls of their lovers, what do the city elders decide to do?
(a) Complain to the King.
(b) Complain to the other citizens.
(c) Complain to the gods.
(d) Complain to Anu.

6. Where does the anticipated battle between the King and the savage take place?
(a) In the forest.
(b) At the gate into the city.
(c) At the temple.
(d) At the King's palace.

7. Seeing his bravery and his skill in battle, with whom does Ishtar fall in love?
(a) Enkidu.
(b) Anu.
(c) Humbaba.
(d) Gilgamesh.

8. What happens when Enkidu hurries to the Temple of Ishtar to look for Harim?
(a) He finds her crying.
(b) He finds her praying to Ishtar.
(c) He finds her with another man.
(d) He finds the courtyard empty and the gates locked.

9. What does Enkidu resolve to do?
(a) Accompany his friend and to make the needed sacrifice.
(b) Stop Gilgamesh.
(c) Leave Gilgamesh and his new life.
(d) Meet with the gods.

10. How does the young girl feel when she sees the man?
(a) She is irritated.
(b) She is unsure.
(c) She is excited.
(d) She is terrified.

11. What does the girl do when she looks beyond the savagery of this man's appearance to the gentleness of his nature?
(a) She smiles at him.
(b) She leaves the forest.
(c) She goes to Enkidu.
(d) She says hello.

12. What does Enkidu do when Gilgamesh gathers to him an arsenal of finely wrought weaponry and lays it before his Enkidu's feet?
(a) He laughs at him.
(b) He agrees to take part in the adventure.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He still turns away.

13. As he nears the Temple of Ishtar, what happens beside him?
(a) Endiku appears.
(b) Ishtar joins him on his walk.
(c) A double-sided axe slices by and buries itself in the pavement .
(d) The earth collapses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the man respond to the girl?

2. What does Ishtar ask her father Anu to create?

3. What should Gilgamesh not do?

4. What does Ninsun possess?

5. Why does Gilgamesh pour meal on the earth?

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