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

2. How does Leeming say the Supreme Being is frequently characterized?
(a) As the sun.
(b) As a snake.
(c) As a thunderbolt.
(d) As the earth.

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

4. How do the Greeks explain the presence of winter?
(a) Hera goes away on a trip.
(b) Hades conquers earth.
(c) Demeter mourns for her daughter.
(d) Zeus bans fertility.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?

3. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?

4. When does Leeming say the older Genesis text was likely composed?

5. What does Leeming say the Egyptian pantheon is centered on?

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