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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened after Moses refused the call to his quest?
(a) He was threatened.
(b) He lost everything he owned.
(c) He was swallowed by a whale.
(d) He was converted.

2. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city?
(a) It is an expression of the divine plan.
(b) It is a microcosm for the social universe.
(c) It is humanity's stand against chaos.
(d) It depends on agriculture, but does not grow anything.

3. Where does Leeming say Moses was called?
(a) The Red Sea.
(b) Mecca.
(c) The Holy Land.
(d) The desert.

4. What does Leeming say the loss of genitals represents in myth?
(a) Loss of a culture's integrity.
(b) Planting a seed in the womb of the Great Mother.
(c) Domination by ideas.
(d) Gaining second sight.

5. What element does Leeming say the Water Jar Boy myth contains?
(a) Redemption by penance.
(b) Death by water.
(c) Creation from nothing.
(d) The search for the father.

6. What does Leeming say most myths are like in their nature?
(a) Playful.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Political.
(d) Religious.

7. What is the temple at Delphi a microcosm for in Leeming's account?
(a) The universe.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The city.
(d) The Olympic temples.

8. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?
(a) The deathlessness of the imagination.
(b) The impossibility of transcendence.
(c) The presence of something beyond the mortal world.
(d) The nature of metaphor.

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

10. What was Hiawatha's quest?
(a) Fleeing her uncle.
(b) Finding a holy cup.
(c) Freeing her parents.
(d) Fending off monsters.

11. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?
(a) A giant.
(b) The Holy Grail.
(c) King Arthur.
(d) Sir Lancelot and Guinevere.

12. What does Leeming say Jesus and Quetzalcoatl have in common?
(a) They were both born of virgins.
(b) They both preached love.
(c) They were both divine humans.
(d) They were both reborn.

13. What does Leeming say Cuchulain had upon his birth?
(a) A sword.
(b) All the powers he needed for his quest.
(c) Six fingers on each hand.
(d) A powerful family.

14. Where does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave derive their sanctity?
(a) Their special and different set of rules.
(b) Their remoteness from daily human experience.
(c) Their relationship with the Great Mother.
(d) Their darkness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Bethel stone represents?

2. What does Leeming say heroes like Karna and Buddha have because of their miraculous births?

3. What tale does Leeming describe as the epitome of the story of the loss of genitals?

4. Where does Leeming say heroes typically find their foes?

5. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?

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