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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 are born from almost everything in existence.
(c) Leeming says that gods can only be born of virgins.
(d) Leeming says that there is only one God, and he was born of the Virgin Mary.

2. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Isis and Amun.
(b) Anubis and Isis.
(c) Isis and Osiris.
(d) Isis and Geb.

3. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?
(a) That they are typically female.
(b) That they are typically moral.
(c) That they are typically allegorical.
(d) That they are typically linear narratives.

4. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?
(a) That the Great Mother makes all life possible.
(b) That culture survives the deaths of its members.
(c) That death is ubiquitous in life.
(d) That the world's spirit pervades all forms.

5. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?
(a) In industrial religion.
(b) In primitive culture.
(c) In folklore.
(d) In modern art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say had to happen before the Olympian gods could reign in the Greek pantheon?

2. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?

3. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say is important about dying gods?

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

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