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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Leeming credit the adaptation of the Greek pantheon the Roman religion?

2. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?

3. When was the Book of the Dead made?

4. Whose behavior does Leeming say explains the behavior of the Olympian gods in the Greek pantheon?

5. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leeming say the figure of the trickster?

2. What relationship does Leeming describe between politics and religion in the myths of the Egyptian pantheon?

3. How do different cultures describe the Apocalypse?

4. What does Leeming say is the creation myth for modern people?

5. How does Leeming say the Romans altered the Greek pantheon?

6. Why does Leeming say that cosmogonies are predominantly feminine?

7. How does Leeming say that cultures still worship the Great Mother?

8. How does Leeming describe the Norse pantheon?

9. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?

10. How does Leeming describe the Greek pantheon as a family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use two different metaphorical frameworks to analyze one myth. For instance, you could describe the myth as a metaphor for political, psychological, spiritual, linguistic, social, or historical realities. Which framework is "better" for analysis in this case? What makes one framework better than another? How can you say when a certain interpretation has gone too far?

Essay Topic 2

Leeming describes myths as concerning gods and goddesses, but they are also tales that transcend religion, and have an essential human, psychological truth, which is applicable beyond the particular religion that told the myth originally. In this light, discuss the religious nature of myth--do myths apply equally to atheists and believers?

Essay Topic 3

Does the packaging--the book jacket layout and design in particular--advance the material in the book? Does it detract? Analyze and describe how the publisher is striving to present this work to a book-buying marketplace. Is the book accurately represented by the cover? How could the cover, jacket, and copy have represented the book better?

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