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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the yin yang represent?
(a) The life span of a God.
(b) All things being part of one process.
(c) All things being separated.
(d) The connection of good and bad.

2. What was Campbell doing when he declared something a lie?
(a) Teaching a class.
(b) Doing an interview.
(c) Talking with an expert.
(d) Writing a book.

3. Who, besides the Jews, believed in a Promised Land?
(a) The Buddhists.
(b) The Hindus.
(c) The Russians.
(d) The Navajos.

4. What did Campbell say was the third function served by Mythology?
(a) Perceiving the mystery of time and space.
(b) Carrying individuals through life's crises.
(c) Supporting moral order in society.
(d) Alligning consciousness to the mysteries of the universe.

5. What is the Jewish name for God?
(a) Jehoveh.
(b) Yaweh.
(c) Rabboni.
(d) Father.

6. What in the desert did Navajos attach mythological meaning to?
(a) The sand.
(b) Every detail.
(c) The snakes.
(d) The emptiness.

7. How did Campbell say religious metaphors should be understood?
(a) By denotation.
(b) By connotation.
(c) Through meditation.
(d) Through interpretation.

8. What did Eckhart say was the best thing God did for man?
(a) Wrote the Bible.
(b) Was a man himself.
(c) Inspired leaders.
(d) Sent his son.

9. What did Campbell say promoted mathematics in education?
(a) Education.
(b) Religion.
(c) Truency.
(d) Mythology.

10. What did Campbell say made narratives complex?
(a) Morals.
(b) Characters.
(c) Philosophical debates.
(d) Literary devices.

11. What did Campbell say formed the mystery of the Orient?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Maps and legends.
(d) Lost scripture.

12. What did Campbell say ruined the poetry in the Bible?
(a) When people didn't see it as poetry.
(b) When people read over it too quickly.
(c) When people tried to fit it in a mold.
(d) When people made it too concrete.

13. How did Campbell describe meditation?
(a) Inspirational.
(b) Discursive.
(c) Transcending.
(d) All of these.

14. What did Campbell say had to happen for a heart to awaken?
(a) Seek for meaning.
(b) Find compassion.
(c) All of these.
(d) Identify with others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saw religion as a protection from experience?

2. What caused Jewish men to be allowed into the covenant?

3. Where was it written that the Kingdom of God would spread unseen?

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

5. What did Campbell say was the fourth function served by Mythology?

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