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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?
(a) As ritual.
(b) As nostalgic.
(c) As prophetic.
(d) As sacramental.

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

3. How does Leeming say the Zeus and Hera represented humanity in Greek culture?
(a) In an idealized portrait of man and wife.
(b) In a realistic yet skeptical portrait.
(c) In a caricature of male and female spirits.
(d) In an essentializing portrait.

4. How did King Arthur assume the throne?
(a) He killed his father and married his mother.
(b) He pulled the sword from the stone.
(c) He worked as a woman for 12 years.
(d) He killed the usurper who had taken his father's life.

5. What opposition does Leeming say King Arthur faced in assuming his quest?
(a) His knights were not worthy.
(b) His subjects rebel.
(c) Opponents believed he was not fit to reign.
(d) His knights seduce his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many gods and goddesses comprised the Greek pantheon?

2. What was Hiawatha's quest?

3. What does Leeming say the Great Mother personifies?

4. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?

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

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