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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an ontological reason for myth?
(a) To compensate for the loss of instinct.
(b) To understand existence.
(c) To understand the goal of existence.
(d) To beautify existence.

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

3. For what does Leeming say the struggle among gods in the Egyptian pantheon is a metaphor?
(a) The expansion of trade in the Mediterranean.
(b) The human struggle against evil.
(c) Historical political and religious conflicts in 4,000 BCE.
(d) The invasion of Ethiopians in 2,200 BCE.

4. 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.

5. What does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.
(b) It became merely decorative.
(c) It lost significance.
(d) It acquired new faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

2. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Meso-American pantheon?

3. What does Leeming say the gods function as in myth?

4. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?

5. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?

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