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

2. Who sent the angel who called Moses to his quest?
(a) Noah.
(b) Yahweh.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Rachel.

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

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

5. How does Leeming say the Greeks thought of Delphi?
(a) As the center of Greek power.
(b) As a tourist destination.
(c) As a business center.
(d) As the center of the world.

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

7. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?
(a) The burning bush.
(b) God's angel Gabriel.
(c) The maid of the lake.
(d) The Holy Grail.

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. Whose story does Leeming cite as evidence of the story of the fall of a great city?
(a) Virgil's "Aeneid."
(b) Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica."
(c) Homer's "Iliad."
(d) Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say a monomyth consists of?

3. What does Leeming say the loss of genitals represents in myth?

4. At Oedipus' birth, what did the oracle predict Oedipus would do?

5. When does Leeming say heroes tend to be born?

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