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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming mean by the term 'monomyth'?
(a) The single identity of all heroes.
(b) The commonality of elements in all myths.
(c) The persistence of the collective unconscious across cultures.
(d) The tendency of most hero stories to follow one pattern.

2. Why does Leeming say trees are often sacred symbols?
(a) Because the tree loses its leaves but grows them back.
(b) Because the tree is the heart of so many of men's tools.
(c) Because the sacred tree's roots reach to the center of the earth.
(d) Because the tree can provide for so many needs.

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

4. How old was Joan of Arc when she first heart supernatural voices?
(a) 8.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

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

6. How does Leeming define the hero?
(a) The hero is any exceptional person.
(b) The hero is the person who performs feats beyond the ordinary world.
(c) The hero is an inventor who brings new knowledge.
(d) The hero is the fixer who banishes monsters and overcomes obstacles.

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

8. Why does Leeming say the hero sometimes refuses the quest?
(a) Because they distrust their mission.
(b) Because they are afraid.
(c) Because of a sense of unworthiness.
(d) Because they do not want to be heroes.

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

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

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

12. What does Leeming say the city represents in myth?
(a) Corruption and commerce.
(b) Confusion and society.
(c) Femininity and nourishment.
(d) Order and law.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming say the Greeks thought of Delphi?

2. What does Leeming say the hero does with the things the hero attains in heroic feats?

3. How does Leeming say most people celebrate Jerusalem?

4. What does Leeming say happened when the Greek soldiers came out of the wooden horse and captured Troy?

5. What is the temple at Delphi a microcosm for in Leeming's account?

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