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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 stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?
(a) The deathlessness of the imagination.
(b) The impossibility of transcendence.
(c) The nature of metaphor.
(d) The presence of something beyond the mortal world.

2. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?
(a) Ninsun.
(b) Ishtar.
(c) Urlugal.
(d) Aga.

3. 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 mortally threatened at a young age and lived to overcome danger.
(d) He was a buffoon but he was put to use in dangerous tasks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?

2. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?

3. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

4. How does Leeming say Buddha was conceived?

5. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city?

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