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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leeming define cosmology?
(a) The study of beauty aids.
(b) The study of the structure of the universe.
(c) The scientific study of the universal order.
(d) The study of the history of the heavens.

2. What does Leeming say the chasm at Delphi gives access to?
(a) The fates' prophecies.
(b) Pan's secrets.
(c) Mother Earth's womb.
(d) Loki's powers.

3. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) The rage of war.
(b) The playful nature of fate.
(c) The spiritual force governing the Pharaoh.
(d) The rebirth of the earth after winter.

4. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?
(a) The presence of something beyond the mortal world.
(b) The nature of metaphor.
(c) The deathlessness of the imagination.
(d) The impossibility of transcendence.

5. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?
(a) That they are typically moral.
(b) That they are typically allegorical.
(c) That they are typically linear narratives.
(d) That they are typically female.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leeming say cultures give human form to Supreme Beings?

2. What does Leeming mean by the term 'monomyth'?

3. What was Hiawatha's quest?

4. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?

5. What does Leeming say the hero does with the things the hero attains in heroic feats?

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