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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 did King Arthur assume the throne?

2. What does Leeming say the hero attains in heroic feats?

3. How does Leeming say most people celebrate Jerusalem?

4. When was the story of Gilgamesh likely composed?

5. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significance does Leeming attribute to Delphi?

2. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

3. When does Leeming say that heroes tend to be born?

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

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

6. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?

7. How does Leeming say describe the most important aspect of the hero's myth?

8. How does Leeming describe the significance of Jerusalem?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How consistent are the myths from each of the cultures Leeming describes? Do the cosmogonies and the hero myths from Greece, say, demonstrate a unified Greekness? Is there a conflict in values between the different kinds of myths Leeming analyzes? Describe two myths that reveal a conflict in values within the one culture that tells them.

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

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?

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