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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?
(a) The possibility of redemption.
(b) The beginning and end of time.
(c) The embodiment of kingship.
(d) The laws of creation.

2. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?
(a) Gaia created her own mate.
(b) Gaia fought to enthrone each of her husbands.
(c) Gaia killed her husbands.
(d) Gaia devoured her offspring.

3. What is eschatology?
(a) The study of the end of time.
(b) The study of prophecies.
(c) The study of Supreme Beings.
(d) The study of fears.

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

5. How does Leeming describe Hopi culture?
(a) As warlike.
(b) As patriarchal.
(c) As matrilineal.
(d) As communal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?

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

3. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?

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

5. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?

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