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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. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?

2. What does Leeming say the Hebraic people's monotheistic god focused on?

3. How does Leeming say the Supreme Being is frequently characterized?

4. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Meso-American pantheon?

5. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What psychological metaphor does Leeming see at the heart of creation myths?

3. When does Leeming say the Egyptian creation myths were repeated?

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

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

6. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

7. How does Leeming describe the Norse pantheon?

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

9. How does Leeming describe the Egyptian pantheon?

10. How does Leeming define a "cosmogony" and what kinds of stories are contained in cosmogonies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the time before the gods like? Not just in the myths, but in the cultural idea of gods: what were the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, or Norse pantheons like before they were seen as pantheons? How did the disparate and local gods become pantheons that seemed to rule over a territory through a religion or system of myths?

Essay Topic 2

What is the setting for a myth, and is this collection the proper place for keeping these myths alive? Does a myth require a ceremonial, ritual, or religious setting, or a certain storytelling environment, or is a myth no matter where it is told or recorded. How much is a myth dependent on the circumstances of its telling? Is a myth different when it is analyzed than it is when it is told as a story in response to events of a question?

Essay Topic 3

Make an annotated timeline that shows the development of myths from one period to the next. Make an annotated map that shows the various types of myth that were prevalent in different regions in the mid-nineteenth century, in classical times, and in the present.

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