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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.
(b) It lost significance.
(c) It acquired new faces.
(d) It became merely decorative.

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

4. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) The rage of war.
(b) The spiritual force governing the Pharaoh.
(c) The rebirth of the earth after winter.
(d) The playful nature of fate.

5. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?
(a) Reason.
(b) Free will.
(c) Morality.
(d) Logos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?

3. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?

4. How does Leeming say the Supreme Being is frequently characterized?

5. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the Norse pantheon?

2. What stories or topics does Leeming include in the category of cosmic myths?

3. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

4. What psychological metaphor does Leeming see at the heart of creation myths?

5. Describe the stages through which the Greek pantheon developed, in Leeming's account.

6. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents in myths?

7. Describe the Hopi creation myth.

8. What contribution does Leeming say Hesiod made to Greek creation myths?

9. How does Leeming say the figure of the trickster?

10. Describe the Christian creation myth.

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