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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, The Hero's Adventure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero?"
(a) Otto Rank
(b) Dalai Lama
(c) Campbell
(d) Tibetan Buddhist monks

2. Which specific cathedral does Campbell indicate he has visited numerous times?
(a) Chartres
(b) Cologne
(c) Canterbury
(d) Milan

3. To what does Campbell compare the caves with cave drawings?
(a) Primitive oral stories
(b) Famous paintings by the great artists
(c) Cathedrals
(d) Historical records

4. What do all of the hunting rituals have in common?
(a) Sustainable source of food
(b) Changing environment or social conditions
(c) The notion of appeasement for taking the life of a wild creature
(d) Elements of cooperation between hunter and prey

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the focus of Chapter 2?

2. Which of the following is not part of the notion of appeasement for taking the life of a wild creature according to Campbell?

3. Which of the following is the best synonym for motif as used in the following sentence: "The motifs of creation and death occurred in both Catholic and American Indian myths."

4. Which of the following can be said that occurs in the stories of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Moses?

5. What types of media did the first storytellers use to create art?

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