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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Norse pantheon first described in writing?
(a) The Elder and Younger Eddas.
(b) The Nibelungenleid.
(c) The Kalevala.
(d) Tacitus' Germania.

2. What does Leeming say gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Territory.
(b) Worship from humans.
(c) Supremacy.
(d) Wealth.

3. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?
(a) Thor.
(b) Yggdrasil.
(c) Loki.
(d) Orin.

4. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?
(a) Myths that define the constellations.
(b) Myths that explain the location of different stars.
(c) Myths that define the history of the earth.
(d) Myths that define the order of the world.

5. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?
(a) He vomits it.
(b) He finds it.
(c) He excretes it.
(d) He fashions it from stone.

6. In Leeming's account, how did the Hopi create their creation myth?
(a) Through song.
(b) Through spreading their culture.
(c) Through initiating their children.
(d) Through art.

7. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?
(a) Why humans have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(b) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.
(c) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.
(d) Why humans fall from grace so quickly after being created by gods.

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

9. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Isis and Geb.
(b) Anubis and Isis.
(c) Isis and Osiris.
(d) Isis and Amun.

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

11. To whom does Leeming say the Egyptian god Isis corresponds in the Greek pantheon?
(a) Athena.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Hera.
(d) Demeter.

12. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?
(a) The reconciliation between male and female principles.
(b) The reconciliation between warring fathers and sons.
(c) The reconciliation between warring brothers.
(d) The reconciliation between ancient and modern ideas.

13. Whose behavior does Leeming say explains the behavior of the Olympian gods in the Greek pantheon?
(a) The Etruscans'.
(b) The Persians'.
(c) The Greek ruling class'.
(d) The Egyptians'.

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

15. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?
(a) As prophetic.
(b) As ritual.
(c) As nostalgic.
(d) As sacramental.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is eschatology?

3. What is an ontological reason for myth?

4. What does Leeming say the Great Mother personifies?

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

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