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

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

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

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

5. Which of the following is a Greek legend from which Campbell quotes?
(a) Odysseus
(b) Celtics
(c) Don Quizote
(d) Buddha

Short Answer Questions

1. Who crushed the Albigensians?

2. Which of the following can be said that occurs in the stories of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Moses?

3. To what does Campbell attempt to equate the beginning of the Reformation?

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

5. In what year was the Albigensian Crusade begun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was different about the Semitic and Indo-European invaders and those that they invaded?

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

3. What is the theme of Chapter 7?

4. 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?

5. What is the mandala in the Buddhist tradition?

6. The legends of heroes also can describe what besides religions?

7. What is the Albigensian movement?

8. What does Campbell indicate is easy to understand in relation to farming societies?

9. How does Campbell describe the acceptance of the concept of romantic love by contemporary western society?

10. What does Campbell describe in Chapter 6?

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