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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?
(a) During rites of passage.
(b) During wars.
(c) During weddings and births.
(d) During coronations and funerals.

2. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?
(a) The flooding of the Nile.
(b) The expansion of the desert.
(c) The birth of new children each generation.
(d) The death of each generation.

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

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

5. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?
(a) That the world's spirit pervades all forms.
(b) That the Great Mother makes all life possible.
(c) That culture survives the deaths of its members.
(d) That death is ubiquitous in life.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?

2. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?

3. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?

4. What is cosmogony?

5. What is an ontological reason for myth?

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