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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what does Campbell indicate that man's view of God depends?
(a) Own beliefs
(b) Societal norms
(c) Parent beliefs
(d) Encompassing culture

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

3. Campbell and Moyers identify the development of the cult of the individual as being important at the _____________________________________.
(a) ending of the idea of celibacy
(b) evolution of modern western culture
(c) beginning of the idea of love
(d) beginning of arranged marriage

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

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

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

7. What type of teacher was Campbell that he recounts in Chapter 8?
(a) Psychology
(b) Philosophy
(c) Sociology
(d) Comparative mythology

8. Which of the following describes how the Hebrew tradition referred to the Canaanite Goddess?
(a) Abomination
(b) Destroying mother earth
(c) Goddess of all
(d) Mother of all that is earth

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

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

11. Which term best describes the manner in which Campbell and Moyers deal with the knowledge of God and eternity?
(a) Detailed
(b) Haphazard
(c) Specific
(d) No way

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

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

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

15. To what country's myth does Campbell compare the clown figure?
(a) India
(b) Nigeria
(c) England
(d) Ireland

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a Greek legend from which Campbell quotes?

2. What is the dominant theme of the Mediterranean region's religious history?

3. How is the sunrise depicted by the Goddess Nut in Egypt?

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

5. What does Campbell indicate is identified as the natural choice for supreme being?

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