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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 does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?
(a) The insufficiency of the human mind to comprehending creation.
(b) The ability of the human will to make moral decisions.
(c) The variety of forms the creator made.
(d) The emergence of the mind from nothingness.

2. When were the hieroglyphs made that contain the oldest myth Leeming cites?
(a) 2200-2000 BCE.
(b) 1800-1500 BCE.
(c) 3000-2200 BCE.
(d) 1500-1200 BCE.

3. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?
(a) A war.
(b) His parents.
(c) The lotus flower.
(d) The four signs.

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

5. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?
(a) The impossibility of transcendence.
(b) The presence of something beyond the mortal world.
(c) The deathlessness of the imagination.
(d) The nature of metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?

2. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?

3. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?

4. What does Leeming say a monomyth consists of?

5. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

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