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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. Where does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave derive their sanctity?
(a) Their remoteness from daily human experience.
(b) Their relationship with the Great Mother.
(c) Their darkness.
(d) Their special and different set of rules.

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

3. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?
(a) He excretes it.
(b) He finds it.
(c) He vomits it.
(d) He fashions it from stone.

4. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?
(a) Sir Lancelot and Guinevere.
(b) A giant.
(c) The Holy Grail.
(d) King Arthur.

5. When does Leeming say the Greek pantheon was adapted to Roman religion?
(a) 600-400 BCE.
(b) 900-500 BCE.
(c) 500-400 BCE.
(d) 300-100 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Leeming define gods?

3. What time of year does the time when heroes are born correspond to?

4. What does Leeming say each place or object has in myth?

5. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

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