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

2. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?
(a) Loki.
(b) Orin.
(c) Thor.
(d) Yggdrasil.

3. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?
(a) Pan.
(b) Prometheus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Epimetheus.

4. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?
(a) In modern art.
(b) In folklore.
(c) In industrial religion.
(d) In primitive culture.

5. What does Leeming mean by the term 'monomyth'?
(a) The tendency of most hero stories to follow one pattern.
(b) The persistence of the collective unconscious across cultures.
(c) The single identity of all heroes.
(d) The commonality of elements in all myths.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Leeming say parallels the serpent in the Christian garden in the Norse pantheon?

3. For what does Leeming say the struggle among gods in the Egyptian pantheon is a metaphor?

4. What evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?

5. When was the Book of the Dead made?

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