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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the gods function as in myth?

2. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?

3. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?

4. In Leeming's account, how did the Hopi create their creation myth?

5. What does Leeming say the Hebrew creation myth was concerned with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leeming say is the creation myth for modern people?

2. How do different cultures describe the Apocalypse?

3. Where does Leeming say the figures of Supreme Beings came from in myths?

4. What relationship does Leeming describe between politics and religion in the myths of the Egyptian pantheon?

5. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

6. How does Leeming describe the Greek pantheon?

7. Describe the Hebrew creation myth.

8. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?

9. What contribution does Leeming say Hesiod made to Greek creation myths?

10. Describe the stages through which the Greek pantheon developed, in Leeming's account.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast myths of the industrial or modern age with ancient or primitive myths. How are myths different in industrial times? What aspects of myths have remained the same?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze two similar myths from different cultures, and characterize the fundamental correspondence between them. How do you account for the distinct features of each myth? Are they culturally relevant markers that characterize each culture? Are they superfluous to the essential myth itself, and therefore merely personal or individual in nature?

Essay Topic 3

Leeming describes myths as concerning gods and goddesses, but they are also tales that transcend religion, and have an essential human, psychological truth, which is applicable beyond the particular religion that told the myth originally. In this light, discuss the religious nature of myth--do myths apply equally to atheists and believers?

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