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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 song.
(b) Through art.
(c) Through spreading their culture.
(d) Through initiating their children.

2. When was the Book of the Dead made?
(a) 1400 CE.
(b) 1200 CE.
(c) 2134 BCE.
(d) 1550 BCE.

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

4. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?
(a) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(b) Destroying an experimental form of humankind.
(c) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(d) As a way to help cultivate the earth.

5. What does Leeming say myths describe with regard to individuals relating to the Supreme Being?
(a) Myths describe the rules that govern redemption and grace for humans.
(b) Myths describe the state of formless perfection alongside the Supreme Being.
(c) Myths describe the irreconcilable split that divides humans from the Supreme Being.
(d) Myths describe the innate unity of each individual with the Supreme Being.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what language does the term "Cosmogony" derive?

2. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?

3. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?

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

5. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?

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