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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say cosmogonies represent?
(a) Cultural truths.
(b) Scientific truths.
(c) Future predictions.
(d) Historical realities.

2. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?
(a) He vomits it.
(b) He finds it.
(c) He excretes it.
(d) He fashions it from stone.

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

4. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?
(a) The ability of the human will to make moral decisions.
(b) The insufficiency of the human mind to comprehending creation.
(c) The variety of forms the creator made.
(d) The emergence of the mind from nothingness.

5. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?
(a) That they are typically linear narratives.
(b) That they are typically moral.
(c) That they are typically female.
(d) That they are typically allegorical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?

2. How does Leeming describe the mythic concern with creation?

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

4. When were the Coffin Texts made?

5. When was the Book of the Dead made?

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