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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. How do the Greeks explain the presence of winter?
(a) Hera goes away on a trip.
(b) Zeus bans fertility.
(c) Demeter mourns for her daughter.
(d) Hades conquers earth.

2. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?
(a) The clean feeling after admitting wrong.
(b) The cleansing effect of death on culture.
(c) The unconscious before experiencing rebirth.
(d) Extreme guilt washing away with forgiveness.

3. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?
(a) The rise of technology.
(b) The rise of consciousness from unconsciousness.
(c) The rise of nationalism from tribalism.
(d) The rise of industry from crafts.

4. What other divine figure does Leeming say the main Norse god resembles?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Christ.
(d) Krishna.

5. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?
(a) Winning glory for their god.
(b) Converting non-believers to the Hopi perspective.
(c) Manifesting the divinity on earth.
(d) Growing into the light of the Sun God's power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Hebraic people's monotheistic god focused on?

2. How does Leeming say the Supreme Being is frequently characterized?

3. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?

4. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

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

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