View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The slightest touch of what waters causes immediate death?
(a) The Bitter River.
(b) The Euphrates River.
(c) The Tiber River.
(d) The Swift River.

2. To what is this man compared?
(a) A brother.
(b) A father.
(c) An enemy.
(d) A neighbor.

3. What does the double-edged axe symbolize?
(a) A kind man.
(b) An intelligent man.
(c) A dangerous man.
(d) A nervous man.

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

5. What is done with the carcass of the beast?
(a) It is destroyed.
(b) It is divided among the city's tradesmen.
(c) It is burned as an offering to the god Shamash.
(d) It is eaten by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

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

7. What do scribes do?
(a) They engrave the stories onto stone or press the letters into wet clay.
(b) They teach Enkidu how to write.
(c) They tell the stories of the King and Enkidu on the walls of a tomb.
(d) They write stories of the men's adventures on papyrus.

8. Why do the elders suggest that a man be created?
(a) To destroy Gilgamesh.
(b) To scare Gilgamesh.
(c) To be Gilgamesh's companion.
(d) To be Gilgamesh's brother.

9. Why is Enkidu enchanted by the young girl?
(a) She reminds him of a gazelle.
(b) She is the first human he has ever seen.
(c) She is the first woman he has ever seen.
(d) She is very beautiful.

10. How do the citizens feel about Enkido's behavior?
(a) Worried.
(b) Excited.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Angry.

11. Why does Gilgamesh believe he is invincible?
(a) He is very strong.
(b) He is two parts god and only one part man.
(c) He is a god.
(d) He is very smart.

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

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

14. Of what is Anu god?
(a) The skies.
(b) Love.
(c) The sea.
(d) The earth.

15. In his dream, what is Gilgamesh doing?
(a) Walking through the forest.
(b) Speaking to his people.
(c) Walking through the streets of Uruk.
(d) Eating dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the King's request to continue building the walls higher and higher?

2. What should Gilgamesh not do?

3. Over whom does Anu hesitate to take the side of the common people?

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

5. Into what does Enkidu eventually force Gilgamesh?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 488 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample