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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. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?

2. What does Leeming say the rocks in the stories of Jesus, Arthur, Mithras, and Isaac represent?

3. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?

4. What forms does Leeming say the heroes' guides will take?

5. What does Leeming say each place or object has in myth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

4. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?

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

6. What traits does Leeming describe in heroes?

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

8. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?

9. How does Leeming describe the fall of Troy?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is Leeming most convincing and most effective as an author describing his topic? Where were you most drawn into the book and its topics, and what accounts for the interesting nature of the work?

Essay Topic 2

How useful is the term monomyth for the study of myth? How useful is it for analyzing a particular myth? Analyze a myth of your choice by relating it to its underlying monomyth, and discuss the benefits and limitations of the term "monomyth" as an analytical tool. How useful is it?

Essay Topic 3

Where is Leeming least convincing and least effective on this topic? Where does he lose the reader? What are the book's weak points, and how can you account for the flaws?

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