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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. In the Buddhist and Upanishad traditions, God assumes what gender?
(a) None
(b) Male
(c) Neither female or male, but is both
(d) Female

2. In the hunting and gathering society, mythology consisted of appeasing the animal gods. In the farming society it consisted of what?
(a) Success of harvest
(b) Understanding the natural world around them
(c) Appeasing the plant gods
(d) Appeasing weather gods

3. 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

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

5. What does Campbell indicate is a relatively recent development in the history of mankind?
(a) Similarities between Judeo-Christian and Moslem religions
(b) Domination of Goddesses in mythology
(c) Males of both dogmas
(d) Depiction of God as a male figure

Short Answer Questions

1. The monster who devours himself until only his face is left becomes a symbol of the ____________.

2. Which specific cathedral does Campbell indicate he has visited numerous times?

3. How many signs of the zodiac are incorporated into Assyrian temples?

4. What image is depicted of the Goddess Nut from Egypt?

5. How many creation myths does Campbell share from the Bible?

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