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

2. What is eschatology?
(a) The study of fears.
(b) The study of the end of time.
(c) The study of Supreme Beings.
(d) The study of prophecies.

3. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Herod.
(b) Nebuchadnezzar.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Hatshepsut.

4. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?
(a) He fashions it from stone.
(b) He finds it.
(c) He excretes it.
(d) He vomits it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Hebrew creation myth was concerned with?

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

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

4. When were the Coffin Texts made?

5. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?

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