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

2. Which term best describes the manner in which Campbell and Moyers deal with the knowledge of God and eternity?
(a) Detailed
(b) Haphazard
(c) Specific
(d) No way

3. What is the earth considered throughout myths of the farming era?
(a) Supportive system
(b) Beginning of the end
(c) Goddess itself
(d) Life and renewal

4. To whose epiphany writings does Campbell compare his own athletic experience?
(a) Byron's
(b) Moyers's
(c) Joyce's
(d) Brown's

5. Which of the following describes how the Hebrew tradition referred to the Canaanite Goddess?
(a) Abomination
(b) Destroying mother earth
(c) Goddess of all
(d) Mother of all that is earth

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a major river which played an important part in the development of societies and cultures?

2. With what is the Goddess identified?

3. From what does Campbell indicate society must protect itself?

4. Who formalizes the dogma of Mary being the Mother of God?

5. What is the bo tree known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Albigensian movement?

2. What is the basis for measuring and recording time?

3. What is the mandala in the Buddhist tradition?

4. What does Campbell describe in Chapter 6?

5. What two things does Campbell indicate will help to decide whether or not the western ideas of matrimony permeate the cultures of India or China?

6. What do the myths of the Iroquois beautiful maid and her many suitors, as well as the English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell?

7. What is the theme of Chapter 7?

8. When and with whom did the concept of romantic love originate?

9. What was different about the Semitic and Indo-European invaders and those that they invaded?

10. What placed the Goddess as a counterpart to the male God who judges and punishes mankind?

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