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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. Why does Gilgamesh immediately repent?
(a) He hears his ancestor's name.
(b) He hears the voice of Shamash.
(c) He fears Ishtar's wrath.
(d) He feels instant remorse.

2. Immediately following the slaying of the creature, what happens to Enkidu?
(a) He becomes fearful of the gods.
(b) He begins having dreams full of ominous portents.
(c) He dies.
(d) He leaves Uruk.

3. What does Gilgamesh wonder about Utnapishtim?
(a) How did he come to be immortal.
(b) Why he left Gilgamesh's mother.
(c) Why he lives by the Bitter River.
(d) If he is immortal.

4. What does Utnapishtim demand to know about the stranger?
(a) His identity and how he came to be there.
(b) Why he does not go home.
(c) If he is a King.
(d) If he is intelligent.

5. What does Sabitu do after he thanks her?
(a) She points him toward the Bitter River.
(b) She ignores him.
(c) She shoves him out the door.
(d) She laughs at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Enkidu sleep?

2. What does Sabitu ask Gilgamesh about his appearance?

3. What is Gilgamesh's explanation?

4. What happens after eleven days and nights of this leg of Gilgamesh's journey?

5. What does Utnapishtim begin at the beginning of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sabitu explain to Gilgamesh that he will find on the shore?

2. What does Ea give Utnapishtim? Why?

3. What option does Urshanabi offer Gilgamesh?

4. After Gilgamesh tells his story, how does Utnapishtim respond?

5. What does Gilgamesh do when he realizes his quest is hopeless? How does Utnapishtim respond?

6. What does the scorpion-man urge Gilgamesh to do? How does Gilgamesh respond?

7. How does Sabitu react after Gilgamesh tells his story?

8. Of what does Sabitu remind Gilgamesh?

9. What does Utnapishtim agree to tell Gilgamesh?

10. What does the boatman say to Gilgamesh, regarding his quest?

(see the answer keys)

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