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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 cosmogonies represent?
(a) Future predictions.
(b) Historical realities.
(c) Scientific truths.
(d) Cultural truths.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeming say the Great Mother personifies?

2. How does Leeming describe the Greek people's pantheon?

3. What does Leeming say about cosmogonies?

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

5. What does Leeming say was the primary difference between the Greek pantheon and the Roman pantheon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leeming say is the creation myth for modern people?

2. How does Leeming say that cultures still worship the Great Mother?

3. Describe the Hebrew creation myth.

4. What does Leeming say the Great Mother represents?

5. Describe the Mesopotamian creation myth.

6. Describe the Hopi creation myth.

7. How does Leeming say the figure of the trickster?

8. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

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

10. How does Leeming describe the Egyptian pantheon?

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