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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?
(a) Birth.
(b) The hearth.
(c) The earth and moon.
(d) Crossroads.

2. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents?
(a) The laws of creation.
(b) The beginning and end of time.
(c) The possibility of redemption.
(d) The embodiment of kingship.

3. To what does Leeming say the oldest myth refers?
(a) Oceans where life first developed.
(b) Primeval gathering places or mounds that become fused with the sun.
(c) Caves where men are reunited with the earth.
(d) Plains where men sow seeds that unite earth and water.

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

5. When were creation myths repeated in the culture that created the oldest myth Leeming cites?
(a) During rites of passage.
(b) During wars.
(c) During coronations and funerals.
(d) During weddings and births.

6. Who was the sun god of Heliopolis?
(a) Osiris.
(b) Re or Atun.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

7. What does Leeming say Horus represents, in the Egyptian pantheon?
(a) The spiritual force governing the Pharaoh.
(b) The rage of war.
(c) The playful nature of fate.
(d) The rebirth of the earth after winter.

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

9. What is the creation myth called in Mesopotamia?
(a) Re or Atun.
(b) The Gaia hypothesis.
(c) Gilgamesh.
(d) Enuma Elish.

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

11. What other divine figure does Leeming say the main Norse god resembles?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Christ.

12. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?
(a) As a system of checks and balances.
(b) As a set of gods cobbled together into a narrative.
(c) As a divine family.
(d) As a nationalization of local gods.

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

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

15. Where did the first creation story Leeming cites come from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Greece.
(c) Germany.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Leeming say the Greek name Zeus comes from?

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

4. To whom does Leeming say the Egyptian god Isis corresponds in the Greek pantheon?

5. Which narrative is not an aspect of cosmogony?

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