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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. Whose myths fascinated Campbell as he was growing up?
(a) Chinese
(b) American Indians
(c) Aztec
(d) Japanese

2. In which of the following rituals is land orientation important to the Sioux?
(a) Pipe smoking ceremony
(b) Church building
(c) Wedding ceremony
(d) Planting

3. What are two principal contributors to the preservation and evolution of myths?
(a) God and followers
(b) Religious followers and their God
(c) People and animals
(d) Artists and shamans

4. What is the stage in marriage where a mythological image embodies the sacrifice of the visible for a transcendent good?
(a) Last stage
(b) Chemical Stage
(c) Alchemical stage
(d) First stage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has never uttered a word of recrimination or complaint toward their persecutors in the Chinese government?

2. What two symbols are combined in a powerful union through the Goddess Nut?

3. An indication of how Western culture might have evolved had Hebrew mythology not survived can be seen in ___________________________.

4. To what does Campbell compare the caves with cave drawings?

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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