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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Leeming say happened when the Greek soldiers came out of the wooden horse and captured Troy?
(a) The gigantomachy was avenged.
(b) Greek enemies everywhere lost hope.
(c) The cosmos was turned to chaos.
(d) A new age of the world was initiated.

5. How does Leeming say the hero's quest typically begins?
(a) The hero discovers a special power.
(b) The hero is called into action.
(c) The hero leaves home.
(d) The hero is challenged by an opponent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say places and objects represent in myths?

2. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?

3. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?

2. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?

3. What is significant in the story of Teiresias, in Leeming's description?

4. How does Leeming say describe the most important aspect of the hero's myth?

5. What significance does Leeming attribute to the labyrinth in myth?

6. What traits does Leeming describe in heroes?

7. What significance does Leeming attribute to places and objects?

8. How does Leeming describe the significance of Jerusalem?

9. What does Leeming say the fall of a city represents?

10. What does Leeming see places and objects as metaphors for?

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