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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 Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) The rebirth of the earth after winter.
(b) The spiritual force governing the Pharaoh.
(c) The rage of war.
(d) The playful nature of fate.

2. What time of year does the time when heroes are born correspond to?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

3. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?
(a) That they are typically linear narratives.
(b) That they are typically moral.
(c) That they are typically female.
(d) That they are typically allegorical.

4. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?
(a) As a system of checks and balances.
(b) As a divine family.
(c) As a nationalization of local gods.
(d) As a set of gods cobbled together into a narrative.

5. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) Earth, wind, water and fire.
(c) Timeless laws of the universe.
(d) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?

2. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?

3. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Meso-American pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say the Norse tree of life represents?

5. What does Leeming say places and objects are associated with in myth?

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