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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 say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?
(a) Reason.
(b) Free will.
(c) Morality.
(d) Logos.

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. Who sent the serpents that devoured the character who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Ares.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Aphrodite.

4. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?
(a) The Big Bang.
(b) Creation ex nihilo.
(c) Intelligent design.
(d) Evolution.

5. What does Leeming say Christ's cross and Odin and Attis' sacred trees represent?
(a) The apotheosis of the hero.
(b) The bridge between death and eternity.
(c) The physical nature of the world.
(d) Dual nature of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?

2. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?

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

4. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?

5. What other divine figure does Leeming say the main Norse god resembles?

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