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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say heroes like Karna and Buddha have because of their miraculous births?
(a) Multiple languages.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Adult qualities, even in their innocence.
(d) Pure hearts.

2. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?
(a) The water jar turned into a boy.
(b) The water jar was filled with water.
(c) The water jar the girl gave birth to broke.
(d) The flowers turned into a baby.

3. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Timeless laws of the universe.
(d) Earth, wind, water and fire.

4. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?
(a) Leeming says that gods can only be born of virgins.
(b) Leeming says that gods are born from almost everything in existence.
(c) Leeming says that there is only one God, and he was born of the Virgin Mary.
(d) Leeming says that in almost every myth, God is born of a holy Mother.

5. What does Leeming say is important about dying gods?
(a) Dying gods let cultures experience death and resurrection.
(b) Dying gods give men reasons to go to war.
(c) Dying gods explain the seasons.
(d) Dying gods protect humans from their feelings about death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say urged the Buddha into action?

2. What does Leeming say the fall of a city represents in myth?

3. Where is the first recorded creation myth from?

4. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

5. What sign does Leeming say started Moses' myth?

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