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

2. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?
(a) The Sanskrit for light or day.
(b) The Egyptian for thunder.
(c) The Persian for power.
(d) The Sumerian for death.

3. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?
(a) Why humans fall from grace so quickly after being created by gods.
(b) Why humans have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(c) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.
(d) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.

4. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?
(a) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(b) Destroying an experimental form of humankind.
(c) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(d) As a punishment for sins against the gods.

5. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?
(a) In modern agriculture.
(b) In the seasons.
(c) In the form of nature.
(d) In the constellations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is eschatology?

3. Whose behavior does Leeming say explains the behavior of the Olympian gods in the Greek pantheon?

4. In Leeming's account, how did the Hopi create their creation myth?

5. Why does Leeming say cultures give human form to Supreme Beings?

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