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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. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Isis and Geb.
(b) Isis and Amun.
(c) Isis and Osiris.
(d) Anubis and Isis.

2. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?
(a) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(b) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(c) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.
(d) As a punishment for sins against the gods.

3. How does Leeming describe cosmogonies?
(a) As ritual.
(b) As prophetic.
(c) As nostalgic.
(d) As sacramental.

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

5. Where is the Norse pantheon first described in writing?
(a) The Nibelungenleid.
(b) Tacitus' Germania.
(c) The Elder and Younger Eddas.
(d) The Kalevala.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leeming define gods?

2. When was the New Testament book of Revelation likely composed?

3. What does Leeming say myths describe with regard to individuals relating to the Supreme Being?

4. Whom does Leeming say parallels the serpent in the Christian garden in the Norse pantheon?

5. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?

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