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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. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?
(a) Creation
(b) Revelation.
(c) The Great Flood.
(d) The meaning of life.

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

3. What evidence does Leeming cite that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?
(a) Bumba subjugates other tribes.
(b) Bumba speaks a foreign language.
(c) Bumba has new ways of doing things.
(d) Bumba is white.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is eschatology?

2. When was the Book of the Dead made?

3. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?

4. What do the various versions of the Egyptian creation myth Leeming cites revolve around?

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

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