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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Campbell attempt to equate the beginning of the Reformation?
(a) Romantic love
(b) Martin Luther
(c) Search for the holy grail
(d) Troubadours

2. The subject of Chapter 5 is in which of the following forms?
(a) Dream
(b) Myth
(c) Suprise
(d) Superhero

3. Who has never uttered a word of recrimination or complaint toward their persecutors in the Chinese government?
(a) Jesus Christ
(b) Dalai Lama
(c) Buddhist monks
(d) Moses

4. What types of figures which dated back to the Neolithic period were found in Europe?
(a) Virgin Mary
(b) Christ
(c) Gods
(d) Goddess

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

6. Of what kind of myths and legends does Campbell provide specific examples?
(a) Those involving death and suffering
(b) Those involving Jesus only
(c) Those involving rebirth
(d) Those involving life and renewal

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

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

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

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

11. Which type of societies and cultures identified with the Goddess?
(a) Those in the river valleys
(b) Those near the ocean
(c) Those in the mountains
(d) Those with the most power and knowledge

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

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

14. Which of the following themes best describes the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Historical
(b) Fictional
(c) Autobiographical
(d) Biographical

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about sexual desire according to Campbell?

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

3. What type of man do Campbell and Moyer say that God is?

4. Rather than a means to an end, Campbell said that religion's role is more likely this?

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

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