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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Experience of Religious Mystery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Western religions pit against each other?
(a) Man and God.
(b) All of these.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) Angels and demons.

2. What did Campbell say most Western religions caused?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Estrangement.
(d) All of these.

3. What did Campbell say almost all religions have in common?
(a) There are scriptural records.
(b) God and Earth are differentiated.
(c) There is a way to repent.
(d) God is a punishing deity.

4. What did Campbell say scholars missed when studying facts?
(a) The ineffable.
(b) The other explanations.
(c) The spiritual nature of things.
(d) The truth.

5. Who saw religion as a protection from experience?
(a) Mohamed.
(b) Jung.
(c) Confuscious.
(d) Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must fall away for people to grasp the truth, according to Campbell?

2. Who did Campbell say concentrated on the denotative meaning of metaphors?

3. What did Campbell say promoted mathematics in education?

4. What two trees did Paul see a connection between?

5. What did Campbell say about the two neighboring lands of the country talked about in Chapter 2?

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