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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 the Bethel stone represents?
(a) The center of the earth.
(b) The ancestors.
(c) The gates of heaven.
(d) The origin of life.

2. What does Leeming say is similar between the myths of Hiawatha and the Buddha?
(a) Both involve flowers.
(b) Both are related to divine knowledge.
(c) Both conclude with an apotheosis.
(d) Both can be related to self-denial.

3. What does Leeming say the Aboriginal myth of the Pleiades resembles?
(a) The Sumerian myth of the huntress.
(b) The Norse myth of the apocalypse.
(c) The Greek tale of the priestesses of Artemis being turned into stars.
(d) The Native American myth of the seven sisters.

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

5. What does Leeming say heroes like Karna and Buddha have because of their miraculous births?
(a) Multiple languages.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Adult qualities, even in their innocence.
(d) Pure hearts.

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

7. What does Leeming say places and objects represent in myths?
(a) The Great Mother.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Ancestral origins.
(d) Actual places.

8. How does Leeming describe the sanctity of the garden, grove, and cave?
(a) As divine.
(b) As ancient.
(c) As political.
(d) As feminine.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?
(a) The water jar turned into a boy.
(b) The water jar the girl gave birth to broke.
(c) The water jar was filled with water.
(d) The flowers turned into a baby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbols in churches does Leeming say represent the Great Mother?

2. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?

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

4. From where does Leeming take the term "monomyth?"

5. When was the story of Gilgamesh likely composed?

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