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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Question Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did half of the people in religion say was truth?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Analogy.
(c) History.
(d) Repetition.

3. What did James Joyce call terror?
(a) A path to the truth.
(b) A doorway to understanding.
(c) A static experience of the sublime.
(d) A test of the believers.

4. What did Campbell say myths were products of?
(a) History.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Desire.

5. What kind of conquerors were always found in Hebrew scriptures?
(a) Patriarchal.
(b) Monarchal.
(c) Matriarchal.
(d) Heroic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eckhart say was the best thing God did for man?

2. What did Campbell say Freud did to mythology?

3. What did Campbell say people cannot view at a glance?

4. Why were Osiris and Set created?

5. What level did Buddhism strive to deal with?

(see the answer key)

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