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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. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Creation
(c) The Great Flood.
(d) The meaning of life.

2. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?
(a) Leeming says that there is only one God, and he was born of the Virgin Mary.
(b) Leeming says that gods can only be born of virgins.
(c) Leeming says that in almost every myth, God is born of a holy Mother.
(d) Leeming says that gods are born from almost everything in existence.

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

4. Where is the first recorded creation myth from?
(a) Mesopotamia.
(b) India.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Greece.

5. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Hatshepsut.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Nebuchadnezzar.
(d) Herod.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Book of the Dead made?

2. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?

3. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?

4. How does Leeming define cosmology?

5. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?

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