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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say gods are fighting for in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) Territory.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Worship from humans.
(d) Supremacy.

2. What does Leeming say beckoned to King Arthur's knights?
(a) God's angel Gabriel.
(b) The Holy Grail.
(c) The maid of the lake.
(d) The burning bush.

3. What does Leeming say had to happen before the Olympian gods could reign in the Greek pantheon?
(a) The Olympian gods had to create humans.
(b) The flood.
(c) Two dynasties of gods had to be overthrown.
(d) Humans had to offer their worship.

4. How does Leeming describe the trickster gods?
(a) As half-goat.
(b) As young and unmarried.
(c) As male and promiscuous.
(d) As gods of craft as well.

5. Why does Leeming say the hero sometimes refuses the quest?
(a) Because of a sense of unworthiness.
(b) Because they do not want to be heroes.
(c) Because they are afraid.
(d) Because they distrust their mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose child is Horus, in the Egyptian pantheon?

2. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?

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

4. What does Leeming say dominates all myths?

5. What do the various versions of the Egyptian creation myth Leeming cites revolve around?

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