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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. Whose story does Leeming cite as evidence of the story of the fall of a great city?
(a) Homer's "Iliad."
(b) Virgil's "Aeneid."
(c) Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex."
(d) Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica."

2. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city?
(a) It depends on agriculture, but does not grow anything.
(b) It is humanity's stand against chaos.
(c) It is a microcosm for the social universe.
(d) It is an expression of the divine plan.

3. How does Leeming say most people celebrate Jerusalem?
(a) As a physical location.
(b) As a history.
(c) As an identity.
(d) As a metaphor.

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

5. When was the story of Gilgamesh likely composed?
(a) 900 CE.
(b) 1,500 BCE.
(c) 1,000 BCE.
(d) 2000 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hiawatha's quest?

2. What does Leeming say most myths are like in their nature?

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

4. How does Leeming describe Delphi?

5. Who sent the angel who called Moses to his quest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Leeming describe the fall of Troy?

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

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

5. How does Leeming define the hero?

6. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

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

8. What parallels does Leeming say in the Aboriginal myth of the Pleiades?

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

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

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