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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 does Leeming say the chasm at Delphi gives access to?

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

3. In what way does Leeming say that Jerusalem is an unusual city?

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

5. In Leeming's account, why are temples and cities founded on mountains?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

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

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

4. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?

5. How does Leeming describe the significance of Jerusalem?

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

7. How does Leeming define the hero?

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

9. What traits does Leeming describe in heroes?

10. What significance does Leeming attribute to places and objects?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

What is the role of the hero in contemporary culture? Are celebrities heroes, and if so, what traits distinguish them as heroes? Make an argument for the heroic status of a contemporary figure, using the definitions Leeming uses in The World of Myth.

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