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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 that suggests the presence of whites in Africa?
(a) Bumba has new ways of doing things.
(b) Bumba subjugates other tribes.
(c) Bumba speaks a foreign language.
(d) Bumba is white.

2. What is eschatology?
(a) The study of prophecies.
(b) The study of the end of time.
(c) The study of fears.
(d) The study of Supreme Beings.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?

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

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

4. Why does Leeming say cultures give human form to Supreme Beings?

5. What reconciliation does Leeming say the Greeks' creation myths described?

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