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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 was for in Mayan culture?
(a) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(b) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(c) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(d) Destroying an experimental form of humankind.

2. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?
(a) The emergence of the mind from nothingness.
(b) The variety of forms the creator made.
(c) The ability of the human will to make moral decisions.
(d) The insufficiency of the human mind to comprehending creation.

3. From what language does the term "Cosmogony" derive?
(a) Greek.
(b) Urdu.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Gaelic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the hieroglyphs made that contain the oldest myth Leeming cites?

2. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?

3. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?

4. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?

5. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?

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