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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. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city?
2. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?
3. At Oedipus' birth, what did the oracle predict Oedipus would do?
4. What forms does Leeming say the heroes' guides will take?
5. What does Leeming say most myths are like in their nature?
Short Essay Questions
1. What significance does Leeming attribute to rocks in myth?
2. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?
3. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?
4. What does Leeming see places and objects as metaphors for?
5. What significance does Leeming attribute to trees in myth?
6. What significance does Leeming attribute to places and objects?
7. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?
8. What does Leeming say the fall of a city represents?
9. How does Leeming say describe the most important aspect of the hero's myth?
10. How does Leeming describe the myth of Oedipus?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the difference between a myth and a legend or fairy tale? Cite examples from The World of Myth to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Leeming describes myths as concerning gods and goddesses, but they are also tales that transcend religion, and have an essential human, psychological truth, which is applicable beyond the particular religion that told the myth originally. In this light, discuss the religious nature of myth--do myths apply equally to atheists and believers?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze two similar myths from different cultures, and characterize the fundamental correspondence between them. How do you account for the distinct features of each myth? Are they culturally relevant markers that characterize each culture? Are they superfluous to the essential myth itself, and therefore merely personal or individual in nature?
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