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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 city represents in myth?
(a) Order and law.
(b) Corruption and commerce.
(c) Confusion and society.
(d) Femininity and nourishment.

2. Whose story does Leeming cite as evidence of the story of the fall of a great city?
(a) Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex."
(b) Homer's "Iliad."
(c) Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica."
(d) Virgil's "Aeneid."

3. How does Leeming describe Hopi culture?
(a) As matrilineal.
(b) As warlike.
(c) As communal.
(d) As patriarchal.

4. When does Leeming say the older Genesis text was likely composed?
(a) 800 BCE.
(b) 110 CE.
(c) 500 BCE.
(d) 950 BCE.

5. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?
(a) Birth.
(b) Crossroads.
(c) The earth and moon.
(d) The hearth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?

2. How does Leeming say the hero's quest typically begins?

3. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?

4. What does Leeming mean by the term 'monomyth'?

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

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