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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the scorpion man's wife reply?
(a) Do not kill the stranger. Let him speak.
(b) The stranger is two-thirds god and one-third man.
(c) This is Gilgamesh, our King.
(d) Allow the stranger to stay.
2. What does Utnapishtim agree to do?
(a) Be kind to Gilgamesh.
(b) Help Gilgamesh get home.
(c) Tell Gilgamesh the story of how he became immortal.
(d) Not punish the boatman.
3. Why does Gilgamesh immediately repent?
(a) He fears Ishtar's wrath.
(b) He hears his ancestor's name.
(c) He hears the voice of Shamash.
(d) He feels instant remorse.
4. Does Utnapishtim agree to aid Gilgamesh in his impossible mission?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Not necessarily.
(d) At first.
5. What happens to Gilgamesh, after reaching the plant?
(a) The animals chase him into the forest.
(b) The water spits him onto the opposing shore.
(c) The cliff shakes him off the edge.
(d) The night sends him into a cave.
6. Can one become immortal by feats of daring alone?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Maybe.
7. What does Utnapishtim demand to know about the stranger?
(a) Why he does not go home.
(b) If he is intelligent.
(c) If he is a King.
(d) His identity and how he came to be there.
8. What happens when both Gilgamesh and Urshanabi take a morsel of the plant?
(a) They become immortal.
(b) They become violently ill.
(c) They are happier than they ever imagined they could be.
(d) They suddenly feel all heaviness drop from their limbs.
9. What does Ea tell Utnapishtim he must do?
(a) Construct a building.
(b) Construct a wagon.
(c) Construct a train.
(d) Construct an ark.
10. What does this god ask Gilgamesh?
(a) Where he has been.
(b) Why he does not turn back.
(c) Why he has not found Enkidu.
(d) How he came to be here in the garden, so gaunt and disheveled.
11. What does Sabitu explain that Gilgamesh will find?
(a) A high mountain.
(b) A boat and a boat pilot named Urshanabi.
(c) A steep cliff.
(d) An island with a man in a hammock.
12. What does Utnapishtim think about Gilgamesh's appearance?
(a) He is upset by it.
(b) He is disgusted by it.
(c) He is angered by it.
(d) He is surprised by it.
13. What does Gilgamesh spot?
(a) The mountain he must climb.
(b) The island with the man in a hammock.
(c) The boat that is to carry him across.
(d) The cliff off which he must jump.
14. Of what does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh?
(a) A magic tree that grows on the banks of the Bitter River.
(b) A magic flower that grows in a nearby field.
(c) A magic bush that grows on a cliff.
(d) A magic weed that grows at the bottom of the Bitter River.
15. How does the King respond?
(a) He responds with a question.
(b) The same way he always has responded.
(c) He does not answer.
(d) He responds differently than he has in the past.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the wife of Utnapishtim describe Gilgamesh?
2. What does the boatman tell Gilgamesh?
3. What happens to Enkidu?
4. What does Sabitu say about what the King attempts?
5. What does the wife of Utnapishtim urge her husband to give Gilgamesh?
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