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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is eschatology?
(a) The study of fears.
(b) The study of Supreme Beings.
(c) The study of the end of time.
(d) The study of prophecies.

2. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?
(a) He was childlike but wise.
(b) He did not have control over his impulses, but he was very strong and honest.
(c) He was a buffoon but he was put to use in dangerous tasks.
(d) He was mortally threatened at a young age and lived to overcome danger.

3. What does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It lost significance.
(b) It acquired new faces.
(c) It became merely decorative.
(d) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.

4. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?
(a) Why humans have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(b) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.
(c) Why humans fall from grace so quickly after being created by gods.
(d) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.

5. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Hatshepsut.
(b) Nebuchadnezzar.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Herod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?

2. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?

3. How does Leeming say Buddha was conceived?

4. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?

5. What does Leeming say a monomyth consists of?

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