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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 gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Worship from humans.
(b) Territory.
(c) Supremacy.
(d) Wealth.

2. Where does Leeming say the world originates in the Christian creation myth?
(a) Itself.
(b) Language.
(c) God.
(d) Chaos.

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

4. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) The Gaia hypothesis.
(c) Enuma Elish.
(d) Re or Atun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?

2. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?

3. When does Leeming say the Greek pantheon was adapted to Roman religion?

4. When were the hieroglyphs made that contain the oldest myth Leeming cites?

5. Where is the first recorded creation myth from?

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