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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 was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?
(a) The Romans used the Greek pantheon to justify their wars.
(b) The Romans placed more value on the practical results of myths.
(c) The Romans placed more value on the gods as personifications of abstractions.
(d) The Romans became more philosophical and contemplative about myths.

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

3. Who was the sun god of Heliopolis?
(a) Re or Atun.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Osiris.
(d) Apollo.

4. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) Re or Atun.
(c) Enuma Elish.
(d) The Gaia hypothesis.

5. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?
(a) As a system of checks and balances.
(b) As a divine family.
(c) As a set of gods cobbled together into a narrative.
(d) As a nationalization of local gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a teleological reason for myth?

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

3. What is cosmogony?

4. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?

5. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?

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