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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 let cultures experience death and resurrection.
(b) Dying gods explain the seasons.
(c) Dying gods give men reasons to go to war.
(d) Dying gods protect humans from their feelings about death.

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

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

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

5. What does Leeming say dominates all myths?
(a) The concept of God and Goddess.
(b) The concept of justice in the universe.
(c) The concept of redemption.
(d) The concept of creation from nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?

2. Who does Leeming say introduced monotheism to Egyptian culture?

3. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?

4. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?

5. When was the New Testament book of Revelation likely composed?

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