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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the more sophisticated concepts of God?
(a) Giver of life
(b) Ultimate Lord of the Universe
(c) Supreme Being
(d) Creator of the World

2. What caused the concept of God to become more of a world savior by the Jews?
(a) Roman conquering of many different lands
(b) Hebrews fighting with the Romans
(c) Hebrews becoming a major force in the East Mediterranean region
(d) The Crusades

3. A myth embraces both of the following: ______________________.
(a) an individual's internal image and those of society manifested in external forms
(b) an individual's internal image and society rules
(c) perception and perseverance
(d) external imaging and society rules

4. Why do Campbell and Moyers say people visit the Holy Land?
(a) Historical significance
(b) Societal norms
(c) Weather
(d) Sacred place

5. Grave burials which show weapons and possessions are an indication of a belief in ____________________.
(a) burial rituals
(b) God
(c) hunter-gatherers
(d) life after death

6. How does Chapter 3 differ from the other chapters in this text?
(a) There are no references to Moyers.
(b) There are little references to Campbell's own personal experiences.
(c) There is little mention of eastern religions.
(d) There is little mention of mythology.

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

8. 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

9. What is the Eucharist believed to be in the Christian religion?
(a) Body of Christ
(b) Blood of Christ
(c) Religious food
(d) Water to wine

10. Which of the following cannot be divorced from a specific culture and environment from the time it occurs?
(a) Religion
(b) Mythology
(c) Writing of a historical nature
(d) Rituals

11. What does Campbell say that architecture forms in Western Society?
(a) Tangible records of history and transformation
(b) Surprising use of places of worship in a society
(c) Architecture's importance to religion
(d) Symbols of representing spiritual principles

12. How have myths helped Campbell view his body?
(a) As an invisible plane
(b) Understanding about life and death
(c) As a vehicle of consciousness
(d) The reality of life and death

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following cities is an example of the importance of architecture as an expression of spiritual tenets?

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

3. How does Campbell describe the slaughter of the buffalo herds by the white man in the nineteenth century?

4. Which of the following could be considered a vestige of an earlier Hunter-Gatherer myth?

5. Which of the following is the best synonym for the term contradictory?

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