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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. Which type of societies and cultures identified with the Goddess?
(a) Those near the ocean
(b) Those in the river valleys
(c) Those with the most power and knowledge
(d) Those in the mountains

2. Which invaders conquered the established societies in the Fourth Millennium B.C.?
(a) Semitic and Indo-European
(b) Roman
(c) Greek
(d) Indian

3. Of what kind of myths and legends does Campbell provide specific examples?
(a) Those involving life and renewal
(b) Those involving Jesus only
(c) Those involving death and suffering
(d) Those involving rebirth

4. The subject of Chapter 5 is in which of the following forms?
(a) Myth
(b) Suprise
(c) Dream
(d) Superhero

5. What is the dominant theme of the Mediterranean region's religious history?
(a) Fertility ritual figures
(b) Goddess
(c) Gods
(d) Equality

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Campbell, infidelity goes against which of the following?

2. An indication of how Western culture might have evolved had Hebrew mythology not survived can be seen in ___________________________.

3. Which of the following best describes how the person on the journey returns?

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

5. What types of figures which dated back to the Neolithic period were found in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who described an expression of metaphysical idea that life is part of one great dream of a single dreamer?

2. What is the Albigensian movement?

3. In relation to the Neolithic figures that have been unearthed, what issue does Campbell not address?

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

5. Why could it be said that the suppression of the goddess myths was not complete in the Christian tradition?

6. What is the theme of Chapter 7?

7. What does Campbell describe in Chapter 6?

8. 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?

9. From where does the name of the Ganges River come?

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

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