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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, The Inward Journey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were myths and legends handed down before the invention of writing?
(a) Oral traditions only
(b) Rituals and oral traditions
(c) They were often lost and not handed down
(d) Rituals only

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

3. When the Jews were in Babylon their God was ____________.
(a) The same as the present day god
(b) The savior
(c) A local tribal god
(d) Unknown

4. What changed about God in the Judeo-Christian group of cultures from preceding societies?
(a) Gender from male to female
(b) Role
(c) Gender from female to male
(d) From a passive to a vengeful god

5. Which of the following could be considered an example of a paramount modern social institution?
(a) Job status
(b) Death
(c) Birth
(d) Marriage

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of a myth?

2. In what time period were the Sumerian seals documented?

3. What caused the concept of God to become more of a world savior by the Jews?

4. Meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas leads each individual to _______________________.

5. What is an important component in the development of mythology?

(see the answer key)

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