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

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

3. What is the dominant theme of the Mediterranean region's religious history?
(a) Equality
(b) Gods
(c) Fertility ritual figures
(d) Goddess

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

5. To what figure from Germanic and Celtic myths did Campbell expose his students?
(a) Father figures
(b) Clown figures
(c) Archetypical figures
(d) Mother figures

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to be a commonality among all cultures in relation to God according to Campbell?

2. From what does Campbell indicate society must protect itself?

3. Which of the following cultures used the circle to represent the embodiment of the center of their mythology?

4. Which of the following went into solitude and emerged to sit beneath a bo tree?

5. What type of teacher was Campbell that he recounts in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are liturgies?

2. What is the theme of Chapter 7?

3. What image does Campbell evoke to illustrate what he is trying to convey when he discusses the concept of eternity?

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

5. Where does the author indicate variations in generalized hero legends can be found?

6. What is a universal desire, according to Campbell?

7. What does Campbell describe in Chapter 6?

8. Why could it be said that the suppression of the goddess myths was not complete in the Christian tradition?

9. 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?

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

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