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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. To whose epiphany writings does Campbell compare his own athletic experience?
(a) Brown's
(b) Joyce's
(c) Moyers's
(d) Byron's

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

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

7. What image is depicted of the Goddess Nut from Egypt?
(a) Swallowing the sun
(b) Swallowing the moon
(c) Giving birth to the savior
(d) Giving birth to the moon

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

9. Which of the following can be said that occurs in the stories of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Moses?
(a) Common elements
(b) No commonalities
(c) Similar features
(d) Exact same story, different geographical areas

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

11. How do the troubadours describe love?
(a) The means
(b) The ideal
(c) The only
(d) The goal

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

13. 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

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

15. What did the troubadours become known as?
(a) Love mates
(b) Actors of love
(c) Love doctors
(d) Singers of love

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bo tree known as?

2. Which of the following historical developments does Campbell trace in Chapter 6?

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

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

5. Whose legend does Campbell recall which is in a similar vein to Sir Gawain's legend?

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