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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Leeming say Jerusalem represents?
(a) The navel of the universe.
(b) The origin of the world.
(c) The City on the Hill.
(d) The Kingdom of God.

2. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?
(a) A war.
(b) His parents.
(c) The four signs.
(d) The lotus flower.

3. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?
(a) He was a buffoon but he was put to use in dangerous tasks.
(b) He was childlike but wise.
(c) He was mortally threatened at a young age and lived to overcome danger.
(d) He did not have control over his impulses, but he was very strong and honest.

4. What idea does Leeming say that icons within churches often reinforce?
(a) The idea of eternity.
(b) The idea of inspiration.
(c) The idea of marriage.
(d) The idea of order.

5. What symbols in churches does Leeming say represent the Great Mother?
(a) Pillars.
(b) Flying buttresses.
(c) Stained glass windows.
(d) Baptismal fonts.

6. In Leeming's account, why are temples and cities founded on mountains?
(a) Because they can be defended better there.
(b) Because can see the weather and visitors coming.
(c) Because they are closest to the Supreme Being there.
(d) Because they gain status when devotees have to bring water and food.

7. From where does Leeming take the term "monomyth?"
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Ezra Pound.

8. What does Leeming say Christ's cross and Odin and Attis' sacred trees represent?
(a) The physical nature of the world.
(b) The bridge between death and eternity.
(c) The apotheosis of the hero.
(d) Dual nature of death.

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

10. Who attempted to convince the Trojans to accept the wooden horse?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Sinon.
(c) Admetus.
(d) Hercules.

11. In what way does Leeming say that Jerusalem is an unusual city?
(a) It is at the center of the ancient world.
(b) It was conquered and reconquered frequently.
(c) It resisted conquest for thousands of years.
(d) It was a sacred place to Jews, Muslims, and Christians.

12. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?
(a) Hector's.
(b) Laocoön's.
(c) Helen's.
(d) Priam's.

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

14. When does Leeming say heroes tend to be born?
(a) When the world is dying.
(b) Half a generation after tyrants or pests.
(c) In spring.
(d) When they are most needed.

15. What does Leeming say the Norse tree of life represents?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Death and resurrection.
(c) Interconnectedness.
(d) Knowledge and Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say is similar between the myths of Hiawatha and the Buddha?

3. Where does Leeming say Moses was called?

4. What does Leeming say the sword represents in the King Arthur and Theseus myths?

5. What does Leeming say the story of the Pleiades typically illustrates?

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