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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 creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?
(a) Intelligent design.
(b) The Big Bang.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Creation ex nihilo.

2. Where is the Norse pantheon first described in writing?
(a) The Nibelungenleid.
(b) The Kalevala.
(c) Tacitus' Germania.
(d) The Elder and Younger Eddas.

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

4. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?
(a) The Romans placed more value on the gods as personifications of abstractions.
(b) The Romans placed more value on the practical results of myths.
(c) The Romans used the Greek pantheon to justify their wars.
(d) The Romans became more philosophical and contemplative about myths.

5. Who was the sun god of Heliopolis?
(a) Re or Atun.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?

2. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

3. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?

4. The first recorded creation myth was part myth and part what else?

5. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?

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