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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) God's angel Gabriel.
(b) The burning bush.
(c) The Holy Grail.
(d) The maid of the lake.

2. In what way does Leeming say that Jerusalem is an unusual city?
(a) It was conquered and reconquered frequently.
(b) It resisted conquest for thousands of years.
(c) It is at the center of the ancient world.
(d) It was a sacred place to Jews, Muslims, and Christians.

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

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

5. What does Leeming say the Tree of Knowledge in the Hebraic myth foreshadows?
(a) The loss of the Holy Land.
(b) The cross of Christ.
(c) The return to the Holy Land.
(d) The apotheosis of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Aboriginal myth of the Pleiades resembles?

2. Where does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave derive their sanctity?

3. How does Leeming define the hero?

4. What does Leeming say the labyrinth represents?

5. What does Leeming say the story of the Pleiades typically illustrates?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Leeming see images of the Great Mother in cathedrals?

2. How does Leeming describe the myth of Oedipus?

3. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

4. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?

5. What significance does Leeming attribute to rocks in myth?

6. What does Leeming say the Mountain represents in myth?

7. When does Leeming say that heroes tend to be born?

8. What mythic significance does Leeming say European cathedrals have?

9. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?

10. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?

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