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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 religions is the only one to portray the serpent as seducer?
(a) Jewish
(b) Christian
(c) Muslim
(d) Buddha

2. Which of the following is another name for Mexico City?
(a) Toluca
(b) Guadalajara
(c) Torreon
(d) Tenochtitlan

3. From where did the clergy during medieval times indicate their authority was derived?
(a) Their own meditations and personal contact with God
(b) God
(c) Inescapable supernatural laws that rule over the natural world
(d) Sins of mankind

4. Where was it especially common to find early societies assigning special powers to plants and animals?
(a) On plateaus or plains
(b) Near rivers or streams
(c) Low lands
(d) High places such as mountains

5. The Semitic and Indo-European invaders were mainly what?
(a) Farmers
(b) Gatherers
(c) Hunters and nomads
(d) Stationary hunters

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many universal themes does Campbell identify?

3. What do the symbols used in Assyrian temples become in the New Testament?

4. In primitive societies, gods were often associated with ___________________.

5. In the hunting and gathering society, mythology consisted of appeasing the animal gods. In the farming society it consisted of what?

(see the answer key)

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