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

3. For what does Leeming say the gods are metaphors?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) Timeless laws of the universe.
(c) Earth, wind, water and fire.
(d) Elements of society, as well as human emotions.

4. What does Leeming say was the natural phenomenon at the heart of the Egyptian religion?
(a) The death of each generation.
(b) The birth of new children each generation.
(c) The flooding of the Nile.
(d) The expansion of the desert.

5. What does Leeming say was the central organizing principle of the Christian Creation myth?
(a) Logos.
(b) Reason.
(c) Morality.
(d) Free will.

6. What evidence does Leeming cite to argue for a single matriarch at the beginning of the Greek pantheon?
(a) Gaia devoured her offspring.
(b) Gaia created her own mate.
(c) Gaia killed her husbands.
(d) Gaia fought to enthrone each of her husbands.

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

8. Where does Leeming say the Great Mother began to play a role over time?
(a) In modern art.
(b) In industrial religion.
(c) In primitive culture.
(d) In folklore.

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

10. How does Leeming define cosmic myth?
(a) Myths that define the history of the earth.
(b) Myths that define the order of the world.
(c) Myths that define the constellations.
(d) Myths that explain the location of different stars.

11. What does Leeming say the flood was for in Mayan culture?
(a) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(b) Destroying an experimental form of humankind.
(c) As a punishment for sins against the gods.
(d) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.

12. Who does Leeming say introduced monotheism to Egyptian culture?
(a) Akhenaton.
(b) Re.
(c) Osiris.
(d) Isis.

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

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

15. What does Leeming say is important about dying gods?
(a) Dying gods give men reasons to go to war.
(b) Dying gods explain the seasons.
(c) Dying gods let cultures experience death and resurrection.
(d) Dying gods protect humans from their feelings about death.