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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, Tales of Love and Marriage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where can the myths and legends of the hunters and gatherers be found?
(a) Cave paintings and rock art
(b) In the Bible
(c) Through written stories
(d) Songs and stories

2. Which invaders conquered the established societies in the Fourth Millennium B.C.?
(a) Greek
(b) Semitic and Indo-European
(c) Roman
(d) Indian

3. On what topic does Campbell open the discussion in Chapter 3?
(a) Human development
(b) Religion
(c) Birth
(d) Hunters-gatherers

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

5. In what time period were the Sumerian seals documented?
(a) 3500 AD
(b) 2000 BC
(c) 3500 BC
(d) 4000 BC

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes how the Hebrew tradition referred to the Canaanite Goddess?

2. What does the Church of the Middle Ages indicate that marriages are not?

3. Which of the following is the best definition for the term "sanctify" as used in the following sentence: "They sanctify their own local landscape."

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

5. How can a myth or ritual be preserved to the changing environment or social conditions of the culture?

(see the answer key)

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