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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Leeming's account, how did the Hopi create their creation myth?
(a) Through spreading their culture.
(b) Through art.
(c) Through initiating their children.
(d) Through song.

2. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?
(a) That they are typically moral.
(b) That they are typically allegorical.
(c) That they are typically female.
(d) That they are typically linear narratives.

3. Where did the first creation story Leeming cites come from?
(a) India.
(b) Greece.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Germany.

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

5. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?
(a) The question of why men are stronger than women are.
(b) The question of birth from nothing.
(c) The question of how man rose to the summit of power over nature.
(d) The question of how life forms evolved and differentiated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?

2. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?

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

4. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?

5. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?

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