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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Leeming say the Hebraic people's monotheistic god focused on?
(a) The sublimity of God.
(b) The dangers of disobeying God.
(c) The importance of proselytizing.
(d) The importance of being on a mission.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leeming say is the archetypal helper god in the Meso-American pantheon?

2. What is a teleological reason for myth?

3. What does Leeming say Isis is the goddess of?

4. What does Leeming say the Roman pantheon is rife with?

5. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stories or topics does Leeming include in the category of cosmic myths?

2. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

3. How does Leeming describe the Hebrew pantheon?

4. How does Leeming define a "cosmogony" and what kinds of stories are contained in cosmogonies?

5. Describe the first creation myth to originate in Egypt.

6. How does Leeming say the Romans altered the Greek pantheon?

7. Who are the primary gods in the Egyptian pantheon?

8. Where does Leeming say the figures of Supreme Beings came from in myths?

9. Describe the Indian creation myth.

10. What does Leeming say the Supreme Being represents in myths?

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