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

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

3. What does Leeming say about the birth of God?
(a) Leeming says that gods are born from almost everything in existence.
(b) Leeming says that in almost every myth, God is born of a holy Mother.
(c) Leeming says that there is only one God, and he was born of the Virgin Mary.
(d) Leeming says that gods can only be born of virgins.

4. 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.

5. Who does Leeming say is the main god in the Norse pantheon?
(a) Orin.
(b) Thor.
(c) Yggdrasil.
(d) Loki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Frigg, in the Norse pantheon?

2. What is the end goal of human development in Hopi myth, in Leeming's account?

3. What does Leeming say cosmogonies represent?

4. When was the New Testament book of Revelation likely composed?

5. What is an ontological reason for myth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Indian creation myth.

2. How does Leeming describe the Egyptian pantheon?

3. How does Leeming say that pantheons can be described?

4. Describe the Mesopotamian creation myth.

5. How does Leeming describe the Hebrew pantheon?

6. Describe the Hopi creation myth.

7. How does Leeming define the cosmic myth?

8. What psychological metaphor does Leeming see at the heart of creation myths?

9. How does Leeming describe the Greek pantheon as a family?

10. Describe the Hebrew creation myth.

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