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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 Supreme Being represents?
(a) The possibility of redemption.
(b) The embodiment of kingship.
(c) The beginning and end of time.
(d) The laws of creation.

2. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?
(a) Intelligent design.
(b) Creation ex nihilo.
(c) Evolution.
(d) The Big Bang.

3. Where does Leeming say Moses was called?
(a) Mecca.
(b) The Red Sea.
(c) The desert.
(d) The Holy Land.

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

5. Who tempts Gilgamesh in the myth?
(a) Ishtar.
(b) Urlugal.
(c) Ninsun.
(d) Aga.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?

3. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?

4. What does Leeming say the hero does with the things the hero attains in heroic feats?

5. How does Leeming define cosmology?

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