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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. Where is the first recorded creation myth from?
(a) Greece.
(b) India.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Egypt.

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

3. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?
(a) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(b) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(c) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.
(d) As a way to help cultivate the earth.

4. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) The Gaia hypothesis.
(c) Enuma Elish.
(d) Re or Atun.

5. How does Leeming describe the mythic concern with creation?
(a) As a metaphor for storytelling.
(b) As a metaphor for birth.
(c) As a metaphor for maturity.
(d) As a metaphor for history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is cosmogony?

3. The first recorded creation myth was part myth and part what else?

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

5. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?

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