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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What does Ishtar threaten to do If her father does not create the creature she requests?
(a) She will marry Gilgamesh.
(b) She will open the doors of the underworld to let the dead rise and outnumber the living.
(c) She will leave and never return.
(d) She will kill him.

5. When Harim enters the forest, by what is she charmed?
(a) The smells of nature.
(b) The animals and leaves and broken sunlight of the forest.
(c) Enkidu.
(d) The peace and quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Gilgamesh agree to this?

2. What is the greatest danger to this city?

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

4. To what is this man compared?

5. At the Temple of Ishtar, the citizens of Uruk will finally do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the King plan to rid Uruk of Enkidu?

2. What happens when Enkidu begins to overcome Gilgamesh?

3. What eclipses Enkidu entrance into the city?

4. How does the King respond when the elders try to intervene?

5. What is the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?

6. What happens when Harim leads Enkidu into Uruk?

7. How does Enlil react to Shamash's pity for mankind?

8. Who are the main gods Gilgamesh's people possess?

9. Why does Gilgamesh go to his mother for advice?

10. How does Ishtar react to the battle between Humbaba and the two friends?

(see the answer keys)

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