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

2. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?
(a) Athena.
(b) Pan.
(c) Prometheus.
(d) Epimetheus.

3. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?
(a) In the form of nature.
(b) In the constellations.
(c) In modern agriculture.
(d) In the seasons.

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

5. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) Earth, wind, water and fire.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Timeless laws of the universe.
(d) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an ontological reason for myth?

2. How does Leeming say the Supreme Being is frequently characterized?

3. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?

4. The first recorded creation myth was part myth and part what else?

5. What does Leeming say the Hebrew creation myth was concerned with?

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