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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 is white.
(c) Bumba subjugates other tribes.
(d) Bumba speaks a foreign language.

2. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?
(a) The Romans used the Greek pantheon to justify their wars.
(b) The Romans became more philosophical and contemplative about myths.
(c) The Romans placed more value on the practical results of myths.
(d) The Romans placed more value on the gods as personifications of abstractions.

3. When were the Coffin Texts made?
(a) 2134 BCE.
(b) 2134-1200 BCE.
(c) 3000-2134 BCE.
(d) 2134-1660 BCE.

4. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?
(a) Winning glory for their god.
(b) Growing into the light of the Sun God's power.
(c) Converting non-believers to the Hopi perspective.
(d) Manifesting the divinity on earth.

5. What does Leeming say cosmogonies represent?
(a) Historical realities.
(b) Cultural truths.
(c) Scientific truths.
(d) Future predictions.

6. For what does Leeming say the struggle among gods in the Egyptian pantheon is a metaphor?
(a) The human struggle against evil.
(b) Historical political and religious conflicts in 4,000 BCE.
(c) The expansion of trade in the Mediterranean.
(d) The invasion of Ethiopians in 2,200 BCE.

7. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Greco-Roman Pantheon?
(a) Epimetheus.
(b) Pan.
(c) Prometheus.
(d) Athena.

8. From what language does the term "Cosmogony" derive?
(a) Urdu.
(b) Greek.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Gaelic.

9. What does Leeming say the Indian creation myths were concerned with?
(a) The variety of forms the creator made.
(b) The emergence of the mind from nothingness.
(c) The insufficiency of the human mind to comprehending creation.
(d) The ability of the human will to make moral decisions.

10. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?
(a) Leeming says that gods can only be born of virgins.
(b) Leeming says that there is only one God, and he was born of the Virgin Mary.
(c) Leeming says that in almost every myth, God is born of a holy Mother.
(d) Leeming says that gods are born from almost everything in existence.

11. Why mystery does Leeming address with regard to human creation?
(a) Why humans fall from grace so quickly after being created by gods.
(b) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.
(c) Why humans have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(d) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.

12. How many gods and goddesses comprised the Greek pantheon?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

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

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

15. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?
(a) How the universe was developed.
(b) The creation of humankind.
(c) Explanation of natural phenomena.
(d) The fall from the state of perfection or grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say had to happen before the Olympian gods could reign in the Greek pantheon?

2. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?

3. Which topic does not fall under cosmology?

4. What creation myth does Leeming say modern people favor?

5. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?

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