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

2. When were the Coffin Texts made?
(a) 2134-1200 BCE.
(b) 2134-1660 BCE.
(c) 2134 BCE.
(d) 3000-2134 BCE.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming define cosmology?

2. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?

3. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?

4. Where does Leeming say the world originates in the Christian creation myth?

5. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?

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