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

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

3. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?
(a) In the form of nature.
(b) In the constellations.
(c) In modern agriculture.
(d) In the seasons.

4. What does Leeming say a monomyth consists of?
(a) A single heroic identity.
(b) Elements that may or may not be acted out by each hero.
(c) A timeless framework of experiences and triumphs.
(d) A protagonist and an antagonist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming say Buddha was conceived?

2. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?

3. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

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

5. Who does Leeming say introduced monotheism to Egyptian culture?

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