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

2. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) Earth, wind, water and fire.
(b) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) Timeless laws of the universe.

3. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?
(a) The Gaia hypothesis.
(b) Re or Atun.
(c) Enuma Elish.
(d) Gilgamesh.

4. Why does Leeming say cultures give human form to Supreme Beings?
(a) Because they cannot express the sublimity of existence without giving it a human face.
(b) Because a Supreme Being protects them from the night.
(c) Because humans tend to see their virtues as outlasting them.
(d) Because they do not understand anything beyond human limitations.

5. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?
(a) Craft and teaching.
(b) Death and resurrection.
(c) Creation and nourishment.
(d) Self-fulfillment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?

2. Who was the sun god of Heliopolis?

3. Whose behavior does Leeming say explains the behavior of the Olympian gods in the Greek pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?

5. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?

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