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

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

3. During whose reign was the first creation myth recorded, according to Leeming?
(a) Nebuchadnezzar.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Hatshepsut.
(d) Herod.

4. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?
(a) The Persian for power.
(b) The Egyptian for thunder.
(c) The Sumerian for death.
(d) The Sanskrit for light or day.

5. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?
(a) During rites of passage.
(b) During wars.
(c) During coronations and funerals.
(d) During weddings and births.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?

2. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?

3. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

4. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?

5. What does Leeming say the gods function as in myth?

(see the answer key)

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