2. How does Leeming say the Chinese describe the flood?
(a) As an attempt to avert a war against the gods.
(b) As a way to help cultivate the earth.
(c) As a way to purge a preliminary form of humanity.
(d) As a punishment for sins against the gods.

3. What does Leeming say the flood represents as a metaphor?
(a) The clean feeling after admitting wrong.
(b) Extreme guilt washing away with forgiveness.
(c) The cleansing effect of death on culture.
(d) The unconscious before experiencing rebirth.

4. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?
(a) Anxiety about the Greeks' supremacy.
(b) Prophecy of Christ.
(c) Legalistic language.
(d) Political metaphor.

5. 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 have to go through rituals to regain grace.
(c) Why humans see themselves as fundamentally flawed.
(d) Why humans created gods to justify their discontent.

6. What does Leeming say the Egyptian pantheon is centered on?
(a) The possibility of self-fulfillment.
(b) The balance between free will and fate.
(c) Death and resurrection.
(d) Redemption.

7. How does Bumba create the earth in Boshongo creation myth?
(a) He fashions it from stone.
(b) He excretes it.
(c) He finds it.
(d) He vomits it.

8. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?
(a) Odin's wife.
(b) The goddess of the hunt.
(c) The goddess of cultivation.
(d) The earth mother.

9. What does Leeming say suggests a desire to escape from earthly existence?
(a) The transformation from instinctual to moral consciousness.
(b) The evolution of morals and laws.
(c) The development of technology.
(d) The transition from struggle and creation to fall from grace.

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

11. What does Leeming say ancient cultures realized through cosmogonies?
(a) That the world's spirit pervades all forms.
(b) That culture survives the deaths of its members.
(c) That the Great Mother makes all life possible.
(d) That death is ubiquitous in life.

12. What is an ontological reason for myth?
(a) To understand the goal of existence.
(b) To beautify existence.
(c) To understand existence.
(d) To compensate for the loss of instinct.

13. How does Leeming define gods?
(a) They are manifestations of the collective unconscious.
(b) They are immortal beings who personify the transcendence of the laws of nature.
(c) They are metaphors for human experiences.
(d) They are projections of human dreams into enduring characters.

14. What psychological experience does Leeming say is central to cosmogonies?
(a) The rise of nationalism from tribalism.
(b) The rise of consciousness from unconsciousness.
(c) The rise of industry from crafts.
(d) The rise of technology.

15. How does Leeming say earth religions still worship the Great Mother?
(a) In the form of nature.
(b) In the seasons.
(c) In modern agriculture.
(d) In the constellations.