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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. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?
(a) The variety of forms the creator made.
(b) The ability of the human will to make moral decisions.
(c) The emergence of the mind from nothingness.
(d) The insufficiency of the human mind to comprehending creation.

2. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?
(a) The cleansing effect of death on culture.
(b) Extreme guilt washing away with forgiveness.
(c) The clean feeling after admitting wrong.
(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 help cultivate the earth.
(d) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.

4. Where does Leeming say the world originates in the Christian creation myth?
(a) Itself.
(b) Language.
(c) God.
(d) Chaos.

5. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?
(a) The reconciliation between warring fathers and sons.
(b) The reconciliation between ancient and modern ideas.
(c) The reconciliation between warring brothers.
(d) The reconciliation between male and female principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming describe the mythic concern with creation?

2. What does Leeming say myths describe with regard to individuals relating to the Supreme Being?

3. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

4. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?

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

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