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

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

3. Who do Campbell and Moyers credit with the origination of love?
(a) Troubadours
(b) Minnesingers
(c) Albigensians
(d) Anglo Saxons

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

5. Which invaders conquered the established societies in the Fourth Millennium B.C.?
(a) Roman
(b) Semitic and Indo-European
(c) Indian
(d) Greek

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Jesus go into the the desert?

3. In what year was the Albigensian Crusade begun?

4. All of the great religions advocate what in some form with the deity?

5. What is God in the Oriental culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the theme of Chapter 7?

2. Who described an expression of metaphysical idea that life is part of one great dream of a single dreamer?

3. What is the mandala in the Buddhist tradition?

4. By the middle ages, to what were the preponderance of Cathedrals dedicated?

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

6. In relation to the Neolithic figures that have been unearthed, what issue does Campbell not address?

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

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

10. How does the hero in a myth become a hero?

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