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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 the Great Mother represents?
(a) Craft and teaching.
(b) Death and resurrection.
(c) Self-fulfillment.
(d) Creation and nourishment.

2. What qualities does Leeming say Hercules shares with many heroes?
(a) He was mortally threatened at a young age and lived to overcome danger.
(b) He did not have control over his impulses, but he was very strong and honest.
(c) He was a buffoon but he was put to use in dangerous tasks.
(d) He was childlike but wise.

3. When does Leeming say the older Genesis text was likely composed?
(a) 500 BCE.
(b) 950 BCE.
(c) 800 BCE.
(d) 110 CE.

4. What sign does Leeming say started Moses' myth?
(a) He saw God's backside.
(b) The ten commandments.
(c) The burning bush.
(d) He heard an angel.

5. Whom does Leeming say parallels the serpent in the Christian garden in the Norse pantheon?
(a) Loki.
(b) Odin.
(c) Thor.
(d) Hel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Norse pantheon first described in writing?

2. What is cosmogony?

3. Whose behavior does Leeming say explains the behavior of the Olympian gods in the Greek pantheon?

4. When were the hieroglyphs made that contain the oldest myth Leeming cites?

5. What does Leeming say is consistent from one set of myths to another?

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