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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not an example of a sacred mountain in Leeming's account?

2. From where does Leeming take the term "monomyth?"

3. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?

4. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?

5. What does Leeming say that mountain represents as a sacred place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Leeming describe the story of Joan of Arc?

7. What does Leeming say about the importance of death and resurrection in hero stories?

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

9. How does Leeming describe the fall of Troy?

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

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