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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?
(a) The unconscious before experiencing rebirth.
(b) The cleansing effect of death on culture.
(c) The clean feeling after admitting wrong.
(d) Extreme guilt washing away with forgiveness.

2. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?
(a) The rise of technology.
(b) The rise of nationalism from tribalism.
(c) The rise of consciousness from unconsciousness.
(d) The rise of industry from crafts.

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

4. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?
(a) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(b) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.
(c) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(d) As a punishment for sins against the gods.

5. What evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?
(a) Bumba speaks a foreign language.
(b) Bumba subjugates other tribes.
(c) Bumba is white.
(d) Bumba has new ways of doing things.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?

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

3. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?

4. What do the various versions of the Egyptian creation myth Leeming cites revolve around?

5. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?

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