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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. Which is not an example of a sacred mountain in Leeming's account?

2. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?

3. Whose advice did the Trojans ignore when they decided to accept the Greeks' wooden horse?

4. What does Leeming say each place or object has in myth?

5. What tale does Leeming describe as the epitome of the story of the loss of genitals?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the myth of Moses?

2. What significance does Leeming attribute to places and objects?

3. What does Leeming see places and objects as metaphors for?

4. How does Leeming describe the hero Herakles?

5. How does Leeming define the term monomyth?

6. How does Leeming describe the myth of King Arthur?

7. What does Leeming say about the importance of death and resurrection in hero stories?

8. What mythic significance does Leeming say European cathedrals have?

9. What is the Water Jar Boy myth?

10. How does Leeming describe the story of Joan of Arc?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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