The Power of Myth Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Power of Myth Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who crushed the Albigensians?
(a) The Ango Saxons
(b) Pope Innocent III
(c) Pope John Paul
(d) The Church of the Middle Ages

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

3. Who do Campbell and Moyers credit with the origination of love?
(a) Anglo Saxons
(b) Troubadours
(c) Albigensians
(d) Minnesingers

4. What does Jung say about religion?
(a) It is a defense against the experience of God.
(b) It is unnecessary.
(c) It provides eternal judgment.
(d) It provides order to life.

5. Campbell and Moyers identify the development of the cult of the individual as being important at the _____________________________________.
(a) ending of the idea of celibacy
(b) beginning of arranged marriage
(c) beginning of the idea of love
(d) evolution of modern western culture

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is immortal and voluntarily participates in the sorrows of the world?

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

3. What complaint do Campbell and Moyers repeat in Chapter 5?

4. What did Campbell indicate that mythologies evolved from after Hunter-Gatherer?

5. Whose legend does Campbell recall which is in a similar vein to Sir Gawain's legend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Instead of the Crucifixion, what does the Oriental tradition describe in relation to Bodhisattva?

2. 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?

3. How does the hero in a myth become a hero?

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

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

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. How does Campbell describe the acceptance of the concept of romantic love by contemporary western society?

8. What is a universal desire, according to Campbell?

9. What is the Albigensian movement?

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

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