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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. What does Leeming say the garden, grove, and cave can be ideal places for?
(a) Political plots and coups.
(b) Murders and secret rites.
(c) Withdrawal for meditation.
(d) Love affairs.

2. In what way does Leeming say that Jerusalem is an unusual city?
(a) It was conquered and reconquered frequently.
(b) It resisted conquest for thousands of years.
(c) It was a sacred place to Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
(d) It is at the center of the ancient world.

3. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?
(a) Prometheus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Pan.
(d) Epimetheus.

4. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?
(a) The flooding of the Nile.
(b) The expansion of the desert.
(c) The birth of new children each generation.
(d) The death of each generation.

5. How did King Arthur assume the throne?
(a) He pulled the sword from the stone.
(b) He killed his father and married his mother.
(c) He killed the usurper who had taken his father's life.
(d) He worked as a woman for 12 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the temple at Delphi represents?

2. What does Leeming say Oedipus was on a quest for?

3. When does Leeming say the older Genesis text was likely composed?

4. What opposition does Leeming say King Arthur faced in assuming his quest?

5. How old was Joan of Arc when she first heart supernatural voices?

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