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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 temple at Delphi represents?
(a) Karmic revisitation of sins.
(b) Divine inspiration.
(c) Feminine nature.
(d) Prophetic arts.

2. What forms does Leeming say the heroes' guides will take?
(a) Wise men or fairy godmothers.
(b) Animal spirits and stars.
(c) Nymphs.
(d) Step-parents or stepsiblings.

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

4. Who sent the serpents that devoured the character who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?
(a) Ares.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Zeus.

5. What does Leeming say the hero does with the things the hero attains in heroic feats?
(a) Found new nations.
(b) Share them with the people.
(c) Renew culture from death.
(d) Redeem sinners.

6. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?
(a) Political plots and coups.
(b) Withdrawal for meditation.
(c) Murders and secret rites.
(d) Love affairs.

7. How does Leeming describe Antigone's quest?
(a) As a fight against patriarchal culture.
(b) As an attempt to express her human nature.
(c) As a fulfillment of prophecy.
(d) As an attempt to repent parental sins.

8. Who does Leeming say Theseus' parents were?
(a) A wood nymph and a mortal woman.
(b) A supernatural spirit and a mortal woman.
(c) A river nymph and a god.
(d) A goddess and a hunter.

9. What does Leeming say the rocks in the stories of Jesus, Arthur, Mithras, and Isaac represent?
(a) The immanence of transcendence.
(b) The permanence of fate.
(c) A bridge between death and resurrection.
(d) A link to the Great Mother.

10. What sign does Leeming say started Moses' myth?
(a) The ten commandments.
(b) The burning bush.
(c) He saw God's backside.
(d) He heard an angel.

11. What does Leeming say the chasm at Delphi gives access to?
(a) Pan's secrets.
(b) Loki's powers.
(c) Mother Earth's womb.
(d) The fates' prophecies.

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

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

14. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?
(a) Aga.
(b) Ninsun.
(c) Urlugal.
(d) Ishtar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leeming say trees are often sacred symbols?

2. How did King Arthur assume the throne?

3. What does Leeming say European cathedrals are thought to represent?

4. What idea does Leeming say that icons within churches often reinforce?

5. In Leeming's account, why are temples and cities founded on mountains?

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