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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?
(a) The Holy Grail.
(b) The maid of the lake.
(c) God's angel Gabriel.
(d) The burning bush.

2. How did King Arthur assume the throne?
(a) He killed the usurper who had taken his father's life.
(b) He pulled the sword from the stone.
(c) He killed his father and married his mother.
(d) He worked as a woman for 12 years.

3. What does Leeming say dominates all myths?
(a) The concept of creation from nothing.
(b) The concept of redemption.
(c) The concept of justice in the universe.
(d) The concept of God and Goddess.

4. What is cosmogony?
(a) Myth of the end of time.
(b) Myth of creation.
(c) Myth of beautification.
(d) Myth of the beginning of humanity.

5. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?
(a) The Romans placed more value on the practical results of myths.
(b) The Romans became more philosophical and contemplative about myths.
(c) The Romans used the Greek pantheon to justify their wars.
(d) The Romans placed more value on the gods as personifications of abstractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?

2. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?

3. How does Leeming describe the trickster gods?

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

5. Who does Leeming say Theseus' parents were?

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