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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of the following religions is mankind identified as being included and participating with the deity?
(a) Upanishad
(b) Hindu
(c) Christianity
(d) Judaism

2. In which previous chapter was the idea of love and marriage discussed?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 1
(d) 2

3. What influence does Campbell indicate leads to the reemergence of the female figure in the Christian religion?
(a) Greek
(b) Roman Catholic church
(c) Hebrew people
(d) Romans

4. The person who leaves the existing world is embarking on a _____________.
(a) dream quest
(b) spiritual wakening
(c) journey
(d) legend

5. Who crushed the Albigensians?
(a) Pope Innocent III
(b) The Ango Saxons
(c) Pope John Paul
(d) The Church of the Middle Ages

6. Which of the following is immortal and voluntarily participates in the sorrows of the world?
(a) Jesus Christ
(b) Bodhisattva
(c) Nirvana
(d) Tibetan Buddhist Monks

7. What does Jesus do when he returns from the desert?
(a) Begins preaching his message
(b) Is baptised
(c) Sits under the tree of immortal knowledge
(d) Goes to the summit of the mountain

8. Rather than a means to an end, Campbell said that religion's role is more likely this?
(a) Obstruction
(b) Surprise
(c) Organization
(d) Defense

9. The Semitic and Indo-European invaders were mainly what?
(a) Gatherers
(b) Stationary hunters
(c) Farmers
(d) Hunters and nomads

10. What two symbols are combined in a powerful union through the Goddess Nut?
(a) Heavenly body and mother earth
(b) Sunrise and sunset
(c) Moon and sun
(d) Mother earth and the goddess

11. What is God in the Oriental culture?
(a) Creator of the universe
(b) Manifestation of the universe
(c) Survivor of the universe
(d) Keeper of the universe

12. What is the earth considered throughout myths of the farming era?
(a) Life and renewal
(b) Beginning of the end
(c) Supportive system
(d) Goddess itself

13. What does Campbell say that the fate of evildoers teaches society?
(a) Dire consequences of not being a moral person
(b) Improve role models standing in society
(c) How to behave morally
(d) The punishments possible in society

14. When does Jesus go into the the desert?
(a) Before he is baptised
(b) After he is crucified
(c) After his baptism
(d) After he begins preaching his message

15. Which of the following best describes how the person on the journey returns?
(a) Legend
(b) A saint
(c) Hero
(d) Ghost

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moses bring back from the summit of the mountain?

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

3. What color was the knight that was linked in a myth with SIr Gawain?

4. What is the name of Campbell's previously published book?

5. What complaint do Campbell and Moyers repeat in Chapter 5?

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