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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. How does Leeming define cosmology?
(a) The study of the history of the heavens.
(b) The study of the structure of the universe.
(c) The study of beauty aids.
(d) The scientific study of the universal order.

2. What does Leeming say the Great Mother personifies?
(a) The pains of childbirth.
(b) The planet earth.
(c) The process of being born.
(d) Grains.

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

4. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?
(a) Political metaphor.
(b) Anxiety about the Greeks' supremacy.
(c) Legalistic language.
(d) Prophecy of Christ.

5. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?
(a) Primeval gathering places or mounds that become fused with the sun.
(b) Caves where men are reunited with the earth.
(c) Oceans where life first developed.
(d) Plains where men sow seeds that unite earth and water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say dominates all myths?

2. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?

3. When were the Coffin Texts made?

4. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?

5. The first recorded creation myth was part myth and part what else?

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