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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 temple at Delphi represents?

2. What tale does Leeming describe as the epitome of the story of the loss of genitals?

3. How does Leeming describe Antigone's quest?

4. What sign does Leeming say started Moses' myth?

5. What does Leeming say heroes like Karna and Buddha have because of their miraculous births?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?

3. What does Leeming say the Mountain represents in myth?

4. Where does Leeming see images of the Great Mother in cathedrals?

5. What traits does Leeming describe in heroes?

6. How does Leeming describe the fall of Troy?

7. How does Leeming describe the significance of Jerusalem?

8. How does Leeming describe the myth of King Arthur?

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

10. What significance does Leeming attribute to the labyrinth 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

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?

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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