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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is lacking in relation to the figures unearthed in Europe dating back to the Neolithic period?
(a) Fertility ritual figures
(b) Worship figures
(c) Male counterparts
(d) Female figures

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the Albigensian Crusade begun?

3. The philosophy of love is grafted onto the underlying saga of whose resistance to the Anglo Saxon invasion of Britian?

4. Of what kind of myths and legends does Campbell provide specific examples?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When and with whom did the concept of romantic love originate?

2. What two things does Campbell indicate will help to decide whether or not the western ideas of matrimony permeate the cultures of India or China?

3. From where does the name of the Ganges River come?

4. What is the mandala in the Buddhist tradition?

5. What does the description of evildoers and their fate teach the members of a society?

6. How does Campbell describe sexual desire?

7. Instead of the Crucifixion, what does the Oriental tradition describe in relation to Bodhisattva?

8. What do the myths of the Iroquois beautiful maid and her many suitors, as well as the English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell?

9. In what major religious icons can common elements be found?

10. What placed the Goddess as a counterpart to the male God who judges and punishes mankind?

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