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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tale does Leeming describe as the epitome of the story of the loss of genitals?
(a) The story of the Argonauts.
(b) The story of the Water Jar Boy.
(c) The story of Medea.
(d) The story of Teiresias.

2. What is cosmogony?
(a) Myth of the beginning of humanity.
(b) Myth of the end of time.
(c) Myth of creation.
(d) Myth of beautification.

3. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Timeless laws of the universe.
(d) Earth, wind, water and fire.

4. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?
(a) The lotus flower.
(b) A war.
(c) The four signs.
(d) His parents.

5. What does Leeming say gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Territory.
(b) Supremacy.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Worship from humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Norse pantheon first described in writing?

2. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

3. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

4. The first recorded creation myth was part myth and part what else?

5. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?

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