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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 the stone represents in the King Arthur and Theseus myths?
(a) A womb.
(b) The populace.
(c) Matter.
(d) Fate.

2. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?
(a) Love affairs.
(b) Murders and secret rites.
(c) Political plots and coups.
(d) Withdrawal for meditation.

3. What does Leeming say the myth of Gilgamesh represents?
(a) The quest for eternal youth.
(b) The quest for redemption.
(c) The perfection of human language in art.
(d) The fulfillment of human nature in death.

4. What does Leeming say the temple at Delphi represents?
(a) Prophetic arts.
(b) Feminine nature.
(c) Divine inspiration.
(d) Karmic revisitation of sins.

5. How does Leeming describe Delphi?
(a) As a place of exile.
(b) As a city.
(c) As a sacred precinct.
(d) As a meeting place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?

2. For what does Leeming say the struggle among gods in the Egyptian pantheon is a metaphor?

3. What does Leeming say the gods function as in myth?

4. Where is the first recorded creation myth from?

5. What happened after Moses refused the call to his quest?

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