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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Experience of Religious Mystery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was ignored when metaphors were taken literally?
(a) The real meaning.
(b) The reality of the situation.
(c) The spiritual core.
(d) The teaching point.

2. What ceased the power of what Campbell said connected people to the infinite?
(a) Scientific discoveries.
(b) Changes in time.
(c) Literary figures.
(d) Historical events.

3. What kind of religion was seen as a protection from experience?
(a) Ritualistic.
(b) Formal.
(c) Christian.
(d) Agnostic.

4. What did 'tat tvam asi' mean?
(a) Love is here.
(b) That is you.
(c) This will pass.
(d) God will rule.

5. What two trees did Paul see a connection between?
(a) The tree of the Crucifixion and the tree of life.
(b) The tree of life and the tree of death.
(c) The tree of knowledge and the tree of evil.
(d) The tree of the Fall and the tree of the Cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did half of the people in religion say was truth?

2. What did Campbell say separated believers from atheists?

3. What did Campbell say was an underlying definition of Mythology?

4. What did Campbell say was the third function served by Mythology?

5. What did Campbell say almost all religions have in common?

(see the answer key)

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