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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. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?
(a) As warlike.
(b) As communal.
(c) As patrilineal.
(d) As matriarchal.

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

3. How does Leeming describe Antigone's quest?
(a) As an attempt to express her human nature.
(b) As a fight against patriarchal culture.
(c) As a fulfillment of prophecy.
(d) As an attempt to repent parental sins.

4. When was the story of Gilgamesh likely composed?
(a) 1,500 BCE.
(b) 2000 BCE.
(c) 900 CE.
(d) 1,000 BCE.

5. What does Leeming say had to happen before the Olympian gods could reign in the Greek pantheon?
(a) The Olympian gods had to create humans.
(b) Two dynasties of gods had to be overthrown.
(c) The flood.
(d) Humans had to offer their worship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?

2. What does Leeming say gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?

3. When does Leeming say the Greek pantheon was adapted to Roman religion?

4. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?

5. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?

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