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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?
(a) Urlugal.
(b) Aga.
(c) Ninsun.
(d) Ishtar.

3. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?
(a) The birth of new children each generation.
(b) The flooding of the Nile.
(c) The death of each generation.
(d) The expansion of the desert.

4. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?
(a) The hearth.
(b) Crossroads.
(c) The earth and moon.
(d) Birth.

5. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?
(a) Destroying an experimental form of humankind.
(b) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(c) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(d) As a way to help cultivate the earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Leeming define cosmology?

3. What does Leeming say cosmogonies represent?

4. When does Leeming say heroes tend to be born?

5. When was the Book of the Dead made?

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