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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 describe the trickster gods?
(a) As gods of craft as well.
(b) As young and unmarried.
(c) As half-goat.
(d) As male and promiscuous.

2. What does Leeming say places and objects represent in myths?
(a) Actual places.
(b) The Great Mother.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Ancestral origins.

3. What does Leeming say that mountain represents as a sacred place?
(a) The prophetic vision.
(b) The permanent presence of the forebears.
(c) The cosmic center.
(d) The end of history.

4. What does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It became merely decorative.
(b) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.
(c) It acquired new faces.
(d) It lost significance.

5. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?
(a) The water jar turned into a boy.
(b) The water jar was filled with water.
(c) The water jar the girl gave birth to broke.
(d) The flowers turned into a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?

2. What does Leeming say had to happen before the Olympian gods could reign in the Greek pantheon?

3. How does Leeming describe Antigone's quest?

4. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

5. What do the various versions of the Egyptian creation myth Leeming cites revolve around?

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