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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Leeming say most myths are like in their nature?
(a) Religious.
(b) Playful.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Political.
2. What symbols in churches does Leeming say represent the Great Mother?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) Baptismal fonts.
(c) Pillars.
(d) Flying buttresses.
3. In Leeming's account, why are temples and cities founded on mountains?
(a) Because they are closest to the Supreme Being there.
(b) Because they can be defended better there.
(c) Because they gain status when devotees have to bring water and food.
(d) Because can see the weather and visitors coming.
4. How old was Joan of Arc when she first heart supernatural voices?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.
5. What forms does Leeming say the heroes' guides will take?
(a) Wise men or fairy godmothers.
(b) Animal spirits and stars.
(c) Step-parents or stepsiblings.
(d) Nymphs.
6. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?
(a) The water jar turned into a boy.
(b) The flowers turned into a baby.
(c) The water jar the girl gave birth to broke.
(d) The water jar was filled with water.
7. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?
(a) God's angel Gabriel.
(b) The burning bush.
(c) The Holy Grail.
(d) The maid of the lake.
8. What does Leeming say places and objects are associated with in myth?
(a) The immanence of fate.
(b) The ordinariness of objects
(c) Transcendence.
(d) Sacred properties.
9. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?
(a) Hector's.
(b) Priam's.
(c) Helen's.
(d) Laocoön's.
10. What element does Leeming say the Water Jar Boy myth contains?
(a) Death by water.
(b) Creation from nothing.
(c) Redemption by penance.
(d) The search for the father.
11. How did King Arthur assume the throne?
(a) He killed his father and married his mother.
(b) He killed the usurper who had taken his father's life.
(c) He worked as a woman for 12 years.
(d) He pulled the sword from the stone.
12. Where does Leeming say Jerusalem represents?
(a) The origin of the world.
(b) The navel of the universe.
(c) The City on the Hill.
(d) The Kingdom of God.
13. What does Leeming say the Aboriginal myth of the Pleiades resembles?
(a) The Greek tale of the priestesses of Artemis being turned into stars.
(b) The Sumerian myth of the huntress.
(c) The Native American myth of the seven sisters.
(d) The Norse myth of the apocalypse.
14. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?
(a) Withdrawal for meditation.
(b) Political plots and coups.
(c) Murders and secret rites.
(d) Love affairs.
15. Why does Leeming say the hero sometimes refuses the quest?
(a) Because they are afraid.
(b) Because they do not want to be heroes.
(c) Because they distrust their mission.
(d) Because of a sense of unworthiness.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Leeming say Christ's cross and Odin and Attis' sacred trees represent?
2. Who sent the angel who called Moses to his quest?
3. What does Leeming say that mountain represents as a sacred place?
4. Why does Leeming say trees are often sacred symbols?
5. How does Leeming say most people celebrate Jerusalem?
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