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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 dominates all myths?
(a) The concept of God and Goddess.
(b) The concept of creation from nothing.
(c) The concept of justice in the universe.
(d) The concept of redemption.

2. What does Leeming say is consistent from one set of myths to another?
(a) Transcendent truths.
(b) Universal human concerns.
(c) Monsters and angels.
(d) Heroes and heroines.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?

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

3. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?

4. For what does Leeming say the struggle among gods in the Egyptian pantheon is a metaphor?

5. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?

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