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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, The Gift of the Goddess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following cannot be divorced from a specific culture and environment from the time it occurs?
(a) Religion
(b) Writing of a historical nature
(c) Mythology
(d) Rituals

2. Who does Moses meet on the summit of a mountain?
(a) Yahweh
(b) Jesus
(c) Buddha
(d) God

3. What does Campbell indicate is identified as the natural choice for supreme being?
(a) Father
(b) Savior
(c) There is no clear choice
(d) Mother

4. What kind of powers did plains dwellers attribute to animals and plants?
(a) Personified powers
(b) Supernatural powers
(c) Spiritual powers
(d) Healing powers

5. What two symbols are combined in a powerful union through the Goddess Nut?
(a) Heavenly body and mother earth
(b) Moon and sun
(c) Mother earth and the goddess
(d) Sunrise and sunset

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following plays a role in the evolution of a specific mythology?

2. In the Pawnee legend, how does Tirawa tell man he will show himself?

3. Which of the following describes how the Hebrew tradition referred to the Canaanite Goddess?

4. In the Buddhist and Upanishad traditions, God assumes what gender?

5. When does Jesus go into the the desert?

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