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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 Tree of Knowledge in the Hebraic myth foreshadows?
2. What tale does Leeming describe as the epitome of the story of the loss of genitals?
3. What does Leeming say the hero does with the things the hero attains in heroic feats?
4. How does Leeming describe the sanctity of the garden, grove, and cave?
5. Which is not an example of a sacred mountain in Leeming's account?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?
2. What parallels does Leeming say in the Aboriginal myth of the Pleiades?
3. What mythic significance does Leeming say European cathedrals have?
4. What traits does Leeming describe in heroes?
5. How does Leeming say describe the most important aspect of the hero's myth?
6. What does Leeming say the fall of a city represents?
7. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?
8. What significance does Leeming attribute to the labyrinth in myth?
9. What does Leeming say the Mountain represents in myth?
10. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?
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 difference between a myth and a legend or fairy tale? Cite examples from The World of Myth to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of the hero in contemporary culture? Are celebrities heroes, and if so, what traits distinguish them as heroes? Make an argument for the heroic status of a contemporary figure, using the definitions Leeming uses in The World of Myth.
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