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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. What does Leeming say is important about dying gods?
(a) Dying gods give men reasons to go to war.
(b) Dying gods protect humans from their feelings about death.
(c) Dying gods let cultures experience death and resurrection.
(d) Dying gods explain the seasons.

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

3. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?
(a) How the universe was developed.
(b) The creation of humankind.
(c) Explanation of natural phenomena.
(d) The fall from the state of perfection or grace.

4. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?
(a) As sacramental.
(b) As prophetic.
(c) As nostalgic.
(d) As ritual.

5. What does Leeming say the Hebrew creation myth was concerned with?
(a) The indifference of the creator to his creation.
(b) The morality of human beings.
(c) The possibility of justice in dealings with people.
(d) The role of humanity in the universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming say the Greek pantheon differs from other pantheons?

2. What is eschatology?

3. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?

4. Who does Leeming say parallels Lucifer in the Norse pantheon?

5. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?

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