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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. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?
(a) Myths that explain the location of different stars.
(b) Myths that define the history of the earth.
(c) Myths that define the order of the world.
(d) Myths that define the constellations.

2. What evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?
(a) Bumba is white.
(b) Bumba has new ways of doing things.
(c) Bumba subjugates other tribes.
(d) Bumba speaks a foreign language.

3. How does Leeming describe the mythic concern with creation?
(a) As a metaphor for maturity.
(b) As a metaphor for history.
(c) As a metaphor for storytelling.
(d) As a metaphor for birth.

4. How does Leeming define cosmology?
(a) The scientific study of the universal order.
(b) The study of beauty aids.
(c) The study of the structure of the universe.
(d) The study of the history of the heavens.

5. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?
(a) The question of how life forms evolved and differentiated.
(b) The question of why men are stronger than women are.
(c) The question of how man rose to the summit of power over nature.
(d) The question of birth from nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?

2. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?

3. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?

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

5. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?

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