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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 the Greek people's pantheon?
(a) As a system of checks and balances.
(b) As a nationalization of local gods.
(c) As a set of gods cobbled together into a narrative.
(d) As a divine family.

2. What does Leeming say the stories of heroes who return or are reborn signify?
(a) The deathlessness of the imagination.
(b) The impossibility of transcendence.
(c) The nature of metaphor.
(d) The presence of something beyond the mortal world.

3. How does Leeming describe the trickster gods?
(a) As male and promiscuous.
(b) As young and unmarried.
(c) As gods of craft as well.
(d) As half-goat.

4. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?
(a) The transition from struggle and creation to fall from grace.
(b) The evolution of morals and laws.
(c) The development of technology.
(d) The transformation from instinctual to moral consciousness.

5. From what language does the term "Cosmogony" derive?
(a) Urdu.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Greek.
(d) Egyptian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally created the human baby in the Water Jar Boy myth?

2. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?

3. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

4. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?

5. What does Leeming say the hero attains in heroic feats?

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