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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What about life is universally recognized according to Campbell?
(a) God is a man.
(b) There is more than one God.
(c) Life is created by God.
(d) There is existance beyond mankind's cognizance.

7. What did Campbell indicate that mythologies evolved from after Hunter-Gatherer?
(a) Metal working
(b) Farming
(c) Gatherer
(d) Tools

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

9. What does Campbell indicate is identified as the natural choice for supreme being?
(a) Mother
(b) Savior
(c) Father
(d) There is no clear choice

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

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

12. What is the name of Campbell's previously published book?
(a) Masks of Eternity
(b) The Hero's Adventure
(c) Tales of Love and Marriage
(d) The Hero with a Thousand Faces

13. Which of the following historical developments does Campbell trace in Chapter 6?
(a) Societies and cultures
(b) Goddess in mythology
(c) Lack of male role models
(d) Western religions

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

15. Campbell indicates the troubadours and their ideas about love were associated with which movement?
(a) Albigensian
(b) Minnesingers
(c) Arthyruian
(d) Anglo Saxon

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero?"

2. Which of the following best describes how the person on the journey returns?

3. Which invaders conquered the established societies in the Fourth Millennium B.C.?

4. When, approximately, did the suppression of the Goddess religions come about?

5. What comes from the release of fears and sorrows of the world?

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