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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. Where does Leeming say heroes typically find their foes?

2. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?

3. What was Hiawatha's quest?

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

5. What opposition does Leeming say King Arthur faced in assuming his quest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Leeming describe the fall of Troy?

3. What significance does Leeming attribute to trees in myth?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does an interpreter of myth lose any interpretive authority if they come from a culture outside of the myth? Can an American interpret an Indian myth, or vice versa? Do you have to be inside of a myth to understand it? Can all myths be analyzed and entered into? Do some myths simply remain strangers to us?

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

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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