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

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

3. What happened after Moses refused the call to his quest?
(a) He was swallowed by a whale.
(b) He was converted.
(c) He was threatened.
(d) He lost everything he owned.

4. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?
(a) He did not have control over his impulses, but he was very strong and honest.
(b) He was childlike but wise.
(c) He was mortally threatened at a young age and lived to overcome danger.
(d) He was a buffoon but he was put to use in dangerous tasks.

5. What does Leeming say Christ's cross and Odin and Attis' sacred trees represent?
(a) Dual nature of death.
(b) The apotheosis of the hero.
(c) The physical nature of the world.
(d) The bridge between death and eternity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?

2. What was the young girl in the Water Jar Boy myth doing when she got pregnant?

3. How does Leeming describe the sanctity of the garden, grove, and cave?

4. Who sent the serpents that devoured the character who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?

5. What does Leeming say heroes like Karna and Buddha have because of their miraculous births?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

3. How does Leeming describe the myth of Gilgamesh?

4. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city in myth?

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

6. How does Leeming describe the myth of King Arthur?

7. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?

8. What significance does Leeming attribute to Delphi?

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

10. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?

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