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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. What is the best definition of a myth?
(a) Written history of mankind
(b) Cultural norms
(c) Body of stories and legends
(d) Society's unspoken rules

2. Which of the following best describes the main idea of this text?
(a) Doctoral thesis
(b) Ideas about changing ancient myths
(c) Universality and evolution of myths through history
(d) History of the human race

3. Meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas leads each individual to _______________________.
(a) provide time to reflect on life
(b) find God within himself/herself
(c) identify themselves with Shiva
(d) suspend thoughts and stress

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

5. What do Campbell and Moyers indicate has lost its force and become a mere remnant of the original in regard to marriage?
(a) Social marriages
(b) Ritual marriage
(c) Polygamy
(d) Monogamous marriage

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are contemporary rituals carried out?

3. Of what kind of myths and legends does Campbell provide specific examples?

4. From what geographical area is the myth of the princely hunter?

5. What are two principal contributors to the preservation and evolution of myths?

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