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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. What does Leeming say gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?

2. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?

3. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?

4. What do the various versions of the Egyptian creation myth Leeming cites revolve around?

5. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do different cultures describe the Apocalypse?

2. How does Leeming define the gods?

3. How does Leeming describe the Hebrew pantheon?

4. Describe the Christian creation myth.

5. How does Leeming describe the Egyptian pantheon?

6. Describe the stages through which the Greek pantheon developed, in Leeming's account.

7. How does Leeming address the fall from grace or perfection in creation myths?

8. Describe the first creation myth to originate in Egypt.

9. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents in myths?

10. How does Leeming say that cultures still worship the Great Mother?

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

How useful is the term monomyth for the study of myth? How useful is it for analyzing a particular myth? Analyze a myth of your choice by relating it to its underlying monomyth, and discuss the benefits and limitations of the term "monomyth" as an analytical tool. How useful is it?

Essay Topic 3

Where is Leeming least convincing and least effective on this topic? Where does he lose the reader? What are the book's weak points, and how can you account for the flaws?

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