A.   is to teach and transmit religious doctrines and rituals.

B.   is to illustrate how primitive cultures used fantasy to understand their world.

C.   whose purpose is not limited to entertainment.

D.   whose significance vanished once civilizations progressed and the sciences were developed.

A.   In Genesis, God creates the heavens, earth, creatures and forces of nature; in the Enuma Elish, the primary gods already exist and are connected to the forces of nature.

B.   In Genesis, there is only a void - then God appears; in the Enuma Elish, the universe and all of the gods are present and have finished their creative work.

C.   In Genesis, it is God who creates everything from the void in order to have company; in the Enuma Elish, it is the hero Marduk who uses magic to create the younger gods in order to use them as his army.

A.   Satan is not mentioned as being the serpent in disguise.

B.   Satan is the one who tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and is then changed into a serpent by God.

C.   Satan changes one of his fallen angels into a serpent to tempt Adam and Eve.

D.   Satan becomes a serpent in order to tempt Eve.

A.   condemns the couple to starvation and exile in the desert, and tells Eve she will be childless.

B.   tells Adam he must henceforth work to grow his own food until he dies and returns to dust.

C.   sends Adam and Eve to solitary lives apart from one another, and tells them they will die alone.

A.   originally represented the primeval goddess who, along with Apsu, created the first generation of gods.

B.   created the universe and all the creatures by using her magic and mixing Apsu's water with hers.

C.   is turned into a monster by Marduk, who is then able to defeat her.

D.   used the power of her saltwater to drown Apsu and become the ruler of the gods.

A.   that only Marduk will have eternal life, while the rest of the gods will age and die.

B.   all of Tiamat's remaining children will be sacrificed to him as a reward.

C.   Marduk will be recognized as king of all the gods, and they will worship him.

D.   the city of Babylon will become Marduk's private palace.

A.   Ymir, the frost ogre, created Ginnungagap by sacrificing his cow, Audhumla.

B.   Audhumla, The Nurturer, freed the first man from his frost prison.

C.   nothing existed - there was only Ginnungagap, the void.

D.   Odin used Ymir's bones to create Ginnungagap.

A.   from Loki, who had sworn to kill all mortals.

B.   from Odin's horse Sleipnir.

C.   from the floods caused by the melting of Nifelheim.

D.   from the angry giants.

A.   from two trees found near the seashore.

B.   from Ymir's fingernails.

C.   from two stones found at the bottom of the well in Midgard.

D.   from sprigs of moss taken from Nifelheim.

A.   they refuse to listen to the First Man and First Woman.

B.   the North Wind warns the creatures in each world not to let the Air-Spirit People settle there.

C.   Coyote tricks them into stealing each world's resources, and then they are punished for it.

D.   their behavior disrupts the balance and harmony in the lives of the creatures already there.

A.   in the masks made to represent the Holy People, who brought the ears of corn to the Navajo.

B.   when the wind blows across the cornfields, making the stalks of corn appear to come alive and walk.

C.   in the whorls and ridges of human fingerprints, which resemble tracks created by wind blowing across the desert sand.

D.   in the sand paintings that show how the animals brought the sacred corn to the gods.

A.   is angry that no one asked him to create any designs.

B.   is envious, so he steals First Man's mica and keeps it for himself.

C.   becomes impatient, so he grabs some mica and just tosses it into the sky.

D.   wants to use his own mica to create a separate sky and his own personal constellations.

A.   and was based on mathematical equations taken from the ancestors of the Inca.

B.   which accurately predicted the date of the Spanish invasion of the Yucatan.

C.   which was originally based on the lunar cycles but was later changed to a solar calendar by the Aztecs.

D.   which was both linear and cyclical and consisted of three different "counts."

A.   the sea and sky existed and were filled with living creatures, but there were no humans.

B.   the quetzal feathers hid the sunlight and kept the world in darkness.

C.   only the sky and sea existed; the primordial gods were in the dark, pooled waters.

D.   nothing existed; then the Plumed Serpent created the primordial sea.

A.   they are physically undeveloped and have no memory of their creators

B.   they try to steal creative power from Heart of Sky.

C.   Heart of Sky becomes alarmed when the manikins grow uglier and taller.

D.   they lack blood and brains and cannot move at all.

A.   can be traced through inscriptions on rocks and stelae as far back as 300-600 C.E.

B.   proves conclusively that the Mayans and Egyptians were once in contact.

C.   was completely destroyed by the Spanish.

D.   was stolen by the Aztecs, who then claimed they invented the writing system themselves.

A.   fallen angels who are given direct orders from Satan to corrupt mankind.

B.   giants who were deformed descendants of Cain.

C.   divine beings who try to protect the humans.

D.   angelic beings who fathered offspring by mating with human women

A.   he will make a covenant with Noah, promising that all on the ark will be safe

B.   when the flood comes, the ark will be lifted above the clouds and kept safe.

C.   the ark must be put into the water in order to be tested first.

D.   if Noah keeps all the creatures inside the ark, the flood waters will recede in 40 days.

A.   Yggdrasil will be cut down by the wolf Fenrir, thus destroying the rainbow bridge.

B.   Loki will escape from his prison in the cave.

C.   a wolf will swallow the sun, and another wolf will seize the moon; then the stars will disappear

A.   condemned to the bottom of the well in Midgard.

B.   eaten by the wolf Fenrir.

C.   torn to pieces by Loki's army.

D.   forced to wade in rivers of serpent venom