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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many gods and goddesses comprised the Greek pantheon?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

2. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?
(a) As warlike.
(b) As matriarchal.
(c) As communal.
(d) As patrilineal.

3. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?
(a) As a system of checks and balances.
(b) As a divine family.
(c) As a nationalization of local gods.
(d) As a set of gods cobbled together into a narrative.

4. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?
(a) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.
(b) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(c) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(d) As a way to help cultivate the earth.

5. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?
(a) Why humans have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(b) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.
(c) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.
(d) Why humans fall from grace so quickly after being created by gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

2. What does Leeming say the Egyptian pantheon is centered on?

3. Where did the first creation story Leeming cites come from?

4. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?

5. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?

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