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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 Norse tree of life represents?
(a) Death and resurrection.
(b) Knowledge and Wisdom.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Interconnectedness.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Which is not an example of a sacred mountain in Leeming's account?
(a) Mount Everest.
(b) Mount Olympus.
(c) Mount Sinai.
(d) Mount Ararat.

6. What does Leeming say the temple at Delphi represents?
(a) Feminine nature.
(b) Prophetic arts.
(c) Karmic revisitation of sins.
(d) Divine inspiration.

7. What does Leeming say the story of the Pleiades typically illustrates?
(a) The interrelationships of sisters.
(b) The persecution of a group of women.
(c) The light that comes out of darkness.
(d) The female principle that only shows itself out of the corner of your eye.

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

9. What does Leeming say that mountain represents as a sacred place?
(a) The permanent presence of the forebears.
(b) The end of history.
(c) The prophetic vision.
(d) The cosmic center.

10. What does Leeming say Oedipus was on a quest for?
(a) Identity.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

11. 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.

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

13. What does Leeming say European temples are meant to represent?
(a) The relationship between worshiper and spirit.
(b) The marriage between the hero and the mother-wife.
(c) The incarnation of the divinity.
(d) The expression of a divine law or idea.

14. 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 reborn.
(d) They were both divine humans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?

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

3. Who attempted to convince the Trojans to accept the wooden horse?

4. What does Leeming say the city represents in myth?

5. When was the story of Gilgamesh likely composed?

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