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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 evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?
(a) Bumba is white.
(b) Bumba has new ways of doing things.
(c) Bumba speaks a foreign language.
(d) Bumba subjugates other tribes.

2. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?
(a) The earth and moon.
(b) Birth.
(c) The hearth.
(d) Crossroads.

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

4. Who does Leeming say introduced monotheism to Egyptian culture?
(a) Akhenaton.
(b) Re.
(c) Isis.
(d) Osiris.

5. What does Leeming say is consistent from one set of myths to another?
(a) Universal human concerns.
(b) Transcendent truths.
(c) Heroes and heroines.
(d) Monsters and angels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

3. What is an ontological reason for myth?

4. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?

5. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?

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