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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Masks of Eternity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Albigensian Crusade begun?
(a) 1310
(b) 1115
(c) 1209
(d) 1200

2. Which of the following is not part of the notion of appeasement for taking the life of a wild creature according to Campbell?
(a) Prey returning to life
(b) Cooperation
(c) Food
(d) Continuation of the cycle

3. Why are contemporary rituals carried out?
(a) To provide stability to our culture
(b) To invoke reverence
(c) To mark special events in private lives
(d) To mark people by their social standing

4. When, approximately, did the suppression of the Goddess religions come about?
(a) Third Millenium BC
(b) Fifth Millennium BC
(c) Fourth Millennium BC
(d) Seventh Millennium BC

5. To whose epiphany writings does Campbell compare his own athletic experience?
(a) Moyers's
(b) Byron's
(c) Joyce's
(d) Brown's

Short Answer Questions

1. Campbell indicates the troubadours and their ideas about love were associated with which movement?

2. What kind of powers did plains dwellers attribute to animals and plants?

3. What does Jesus do when he returns from the desert?

4. Where was the physical scope of Biblical mythology?

5. Whose legend does Campbell recall which is in a similar vein to Sir Gawain's legend?

(see the answer key)

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