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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 describe the Boshongo culture?

2. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?

3. To whom does Leeming say the Egyptian god Isis corresponds in the Greek pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?

5. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Hebrew creation myth.

2. What does Leeming say is the creation myth for modern people?

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

4. How does Leeming describe the Norse pantheon?

5. What relationship does Leeming describe between politics and religion in the myths of the Egyptian pantheon?

6. How does Leeming say the figure of the trickster?

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

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

9. How does Leeming describe the Egyptian pantheon?

10. How does Leeming say the Romans altered the Greek pantheon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast myths of the industrial or modern age with ancient or primitive myths. How are myths different in industrial times? What aspects of myths have remained the same?

Essay Topic 2

Read another book about mythology--even something short, like Karen Armstrong's "A Short History of Myth"--and compare and contrast Leeming's approach to myth to another author's. What are Leeming's main preoccupations, and what are his methods? What is his style for expressing them? What does he tend to include? What does he omit? How can you characterize Leeming's intellectual personality?

Essay Topic 3

Describe a myth that is alive and being told today, in your culture. What are its metaphorical meanings? What mystery does the myth put you in the presence of? How does it balance abstract and physical or imaginative and real attributes?

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