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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 define cosmology?
2. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?
3. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?
4. What is eschatology?
5. What does Leeming say the Great Mother personifies?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Hebrew creation myth.
2. Describe the Mesopotamian creation myth.
3. Describe the stages through which the Greek pantheon developed, in Leeming's account.
4. How does Leeming describe the Norse pantheon?
5. What contribution does Leeming say Hesiod made to Greek creation myths?
6. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents in myths?
7. Describe the Indian creation myth.
8. How does Leeming address the fall from grace or perfection in creation myths?
9. Who are the primary gods in the Egyptian pantheon?
10. Describe the first creation myth to originate in Egypt.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Make an annotated timeline that shows the development of myths from one period to the next. Make an annotated map that shows the various types of myth that were prevalent in different regions in the mid-nineteenth century, in classical times, and in the present.
Essay Topic 2
What was the time before the gods like? Not just in the myths, but in the cultural idea of gods: what were the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, or Norse pantheons like before they were seen as pantheons? How did the disparate and local gods become pantheons that seemed to rule over a territory through a religion or system of myths?
Essay Topic 3
How are heroes different from ordinary humans? Is everyone a hero at certain stages of their development, or is the hero a specific cultural response to social problems or situations? Use examples from The World of Myth to define the status of the hero relative to "ordinary" people.
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