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

2. Who often arranged for traditional marriage?
(a) Participants
(b) Church
(c) Family
(d) Husband to be

3. What is the name of Campbell's previously published book?
(a) The Hero's Adventure
(b) Masks of Eternity
(c) The Hero with a Thousand Faces
(d) Tales of Love and Marriage

4. What region has symbols of the bull and boar representing male power?
(a) Asian
(b) Mediterranean
(c) European
(d) African

5. Which of the following went into solitude and emerged to sit beneath a bo tree?
(a) Buddha
(b) Jesus Christ
(c) Moses
(d) Dalai Lama

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The psychology of love does not affect which of the following in regard to knights?

3. With what is the Goddess identified?

4. What does Campbell say that the fate of evildoers teaches society?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the title of Chapter 5, The Hero's Adventure, indicate to the reader?

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

3. What is the basis for measuring and recording time?

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

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

6. What is the Albigensian movement?

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

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

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

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

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