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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 happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It became merely decorative.
(b) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.
(c) It acquired new faces.
(d) It lost significance.

2. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?
(a) Manifesting the divinity on earth.
(b) Converting non-believers to the Hopi perspective.
(c) Growing into the light of the Sun God's power.
(d) Winning glory for their god.

3. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?
(a) The question of why men are stronger than women are.
(b) The question of how man rose to the summit of power over nature.
(c) The question of how life forms evolved and differentiated.
(d) The question of birth from nothing.

4. Where did the first creation story Leeming cites come from?
(a) India.
(b) Greece.
(c) Germany.
(d) Egypt.

5. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Nebuchadnezzar.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Herod.
(d) Hatshepsut.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Coffin Texts made?

2. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?

3. What does Leeming say the gods function as in myth?

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

5. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?

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