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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?
(a) Hector's.
(b) Laocoön's.
(c) Priam's.
(d) Helen's.

2. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?
(a) The reconciliation between male and female principles.
(b) The reconciliation between ancient and modern ideas.
(c) The reconciliation between warring fathers and sons.
(d) The reconciliation between warring brothers.

3. What does Leeming say the chasm at Delphi gives access to?
(a) Loki's powers.
(b) The fates' prophecies.
(c) Pan's secrets.
(d) Mother Earth's womb.

4. What does Leeming say that Galahad found in the Chapel Perilous?
(a) The Holy Grail.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) Sir Lancelot and Guinevere.
(d) A giant.

5. Where did the first creation story Leeming cites come from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Germany.
(c) India.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?

2. What does Leeming say cosmogonies represent?

3. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say the stone represents in the King Arthur and Theseus myths?

5. How does Leeming describe Hopi culture?

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