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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. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Nebuchadnezzar.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Hatshepsut.
(d) Herod.

2. What does Leeming say Christ's cross and Odin and Attis' sacred trees represent?
(a) The bridge between death and eternity.
(b) The physical nature of the world.
(c) Dual nature of death.
(d) The apotheosis of the hero.

3. When was the Book of the Dead made?
(a) 1400 CE.
(b) 2134 BCE.
(c) 1550 BCE.
(d) 1200 CE.

4. How does Leeming describe the sanctity of the garden, grove, and cave?
(a) As political.
(b) As ancient.
(c) As feminine.
(d) As divine.

5. From where does Leeming take the term "monomyth?"
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Coffin Texts made?

2. Where does Leeming say Jerusalem represents?

3. How does Leeming describe the significance of the city?

4. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

5. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?

(see the answer key)

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