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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?
(a) Gaia created her own mate.
(b) Gaia fought to enthrone each of her husbands.
(c) Gaia devoured her offspring.
(d) Gaia killed her husbands.

2. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?
(a) The birth of new children each generation.
(b) The expansion of the desert.
(c) The flooding of the Nile.
(d) The death of each generation.

3. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?
(a) Logos.
(b) Reason.
(c) Morality.
(d) Free will.

4. How does Leeming say the Zeus and Hera represented humanity in Greek culture?
(a) In an essentializing portrait.
(b) In an idealized portrait of man and wife.
(c) In a caricature of male and female spirits.
(d) In a realistic yet skeptical portrait.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leeming say the Hebraic people's monotheistic god focused on?

3. What problem or question does Leeming say cultures were addressing in cosmogonies?

4. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?

5. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

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