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

2. 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.

3. What does Leeming say the Egyptian pantheon is centered on?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Death and resurrection.
(c) The possibility of self-fulfillment.
(d) The balance between free will and fate.

4. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?
(a) The clean feeling after admitting wrong.
(b) The cleansing effect of death on culture.
(c) The unconscious before experiencing rebirth.
(d) Extreme guilt washing away with forgiveness.

5. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) The rage of war.
(b) The spiritual force governing the Pharaoh.
(c) The rebirth of the earth after winter.
(d) The playful nature of fate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Leeming describe the mythic concern with creation?

3. What is eschatology?

4. Who was the sun god of Heliopolis?

5. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?

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