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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 does Leeming say happened to the figure of the Great Mother over time?
(a) It lingered at the periphery of industrial culture.
(b) It lost significance.
(c) It acquired new faces.
(d) It became merely decorative.

2. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?
(a) The evolution of morals and laws.
(b) The transformation from instinctual to moral consciousness.
(c) The development of technology.
(d) The transition from struggle and creation to fall from grace.

3. How does Leeming describe the Boshongo culture?
(a) As warlike.
(b) As patrilineal.
(c) As communal.
(d) As matriarchal.

4. How many gods and goddesses comprised the Greek pantheon?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

5. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?
(a) Myths that explain the location of different stars.
(b) Myths that define the constellations.
(c) Myths that define the order of the world.
(d) Myths that define the history of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Leeming's account, how did the Hopi create their creation myth?

2. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?

3. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?

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

5. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?

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