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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complaint do Campbell and Moyers repeat in Chapter 5?
(a) Schools do not teach enough mythology.
(b) Youth no longer believes in myths.
(c) Modern society does not have adequate myths for the youth.
(d) There are too many myths in our society.

2. Which of the following went into solitude and emerged to sit beneath a bo tree?
(a) Jesus Christ
(b) Buddha
(c) Moses
(d) Dalai Lama

3. Buddhist teachings indicate that though there is suffering in life, people should do what?
(a) Celebrate pain and sorrow
(b) Confront and endure pain and sorrow
(c) Avoid all pain and sorrow
(d) Ignore pain and sorrow

4. What does Campbell indicate will emerge to replace the old traditional mythologies?
(a) Stable mythology
(b) Global mythology
(c) Goddess mythology
(d) Galactic mythology

5. What seems to be a commonality among all cultures in relation to God according to Campbell?
(a) Stories about God to pass down
(b) Identification and union with God
(c) Reliance on God to set rules
(d) Introduction of similarities to other Gods

6. Which of the following rivers are considered in the Near East?
(a) Indus
(b) Tigris-Euphrates
(c) Amazon
(d) Nile

7. What region has symbols of the bull and boar representing male power?
(a) Mediterranean
(b) European
(c) African
(d) Asian

8. What type of man do Campbell and Moyer say that God is?
(a) Digressive
(b) Universally
(c) Archetypical
(d) Evolutionary

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

10. What does Campbell indicate the concept of romantic love stresses in Western culture?
(a) Chaos of society
(b) Demands of society
(c) Constraints of the society
(d) Preeminence of the individual's experience

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

12. Whose legend does Campbell recall which is in a similar vein to Sir Gawain's legend?
(a) Buddha
(b) Crucifixion
(c) Iroquois legend
(d) Yahweh

13. Which of the following is true about sexual desire according to Campbell?
(a) Unnecessary
(b) Impersonal
(c) Required
(d) Necessary

14. According to Campbell, infidelity goes against which of the following?
(a) Pope
(b) Greater good of scoiety
(c) Troubadours
(d) Martin Luther

15. In which culture does the deity include both male and female entities?
(a) West
(b) Upanishad
(c) Indian
(d) Oriental

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jesus go into the the desert?

2. To whose epiphany writings does Campbell compare his own athletic experience?

3. On what does Campbell indicate that man's view of God depends?

4. What influence does Campbell indicate leads to the reemergence of the female figure in the Christian religion?

5. Campbell and Moyers identify the development of the cult of the individual as being important at the _____________________________________.

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