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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. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?
2. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?
3. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?
4. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?
5. How does Leeming define gods?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Leeming describe the Greek pantheon as a family?
2. Describe the Christian creation myth.
3. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?
4. What psychological metaphor does Leeming see at the heart of creation myths?
5. Describe the stages through which the Greek pantheon developed, in Leeming's account.
6. How does Leeming describe the Greek pantheon?
7. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?
8. How does Leeming say the figure of the trickster?
9. Describe the Mesopotamian creation myth.
10. How does Leeming define a "cosmogony" and what kinds of stories are contained in cosmogonies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Does the packaging--the book jacket layout and design in particular--advance the material in the book? Does it detract? Analyze and describe how the publisher is striving to present this work to a book-buying marketplace. Is the book accurately represented by the cover? How could the cover, jacket, and copy have represented the book better?
Essay Topic 2
Where is Leeming most convincing and most effective as an author describing his topic? Where were you most drawn into the book and its topics, and what accounts for the interesting nature of the work?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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