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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. What does Leeming mean by the term 'monomyth'?
(a) The persistence of the collective unconscious across cultures.
(b) The tendency of most hero stories to follow one pattern.
(c) The single identity of all heroes.
(d) The commonality of elements in all myths.

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

3. To whom does Leeming credit the adaptation of the Greek pantheon the Roman religion?
(a) The Trojans.
(b) The Aolians.
(c) The Syracusans.
(d) The Etruscans.

4. What does Leeming say the rocks in the stories of Jesus, Arthur, Mithras, and Isaac represent?
(a) A bridge between death and resurrection.
(b) The immanence of transcendence.
(c) A link to the Great Mother.
(d) The permanence of fate.

5. Who was the oldest divine being in the Greek pantheon?
(a) Uranus.
(b) Chronos.
(c) Gaia.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leeming say parallels Lucifer in the Norse pantheon?

2. From where does Leeming take the term "monomyth?"

3. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?

4. What does Leeming say Cuchulain had upon his birth?

5. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?

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