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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Egyptians think of the tongue and teeth?
(a) They were necessary.
(b) They were ornamental.
(c) They were sensory.
(d) They were sexual.

2. What did Dimmittis say one must do in order to die happily?
(a) See the Savior.
(b) Learn wisdom.
(c) Live a good life.
(d) Have children.

3. What was the first God of Evil on record called?
(a) The Devil.
(b) The Deceiver.
(c) Hades.
(d) Lucifer.

4. What two images show re-birth?
(a) The sun and the moon.
(b) The seed and the tree.
(c) The river and the ocean.
(d) The stars and the moon.

5. What did Campbell say diverse traditions expressed?
(a) A single experience.
(b) A source of salvation.
(c) A higher power.
(d) A new inspiration.

6. What did Campbell say would help men learn transcendence?
(a) Love.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Suffering.

7. What marked the first known sacred spaces?
(a) Special pottery.
(b) Cave drawings.
(c) Manuscripts.
(d) Maps.

8. Which of these showed the commonality in human beliefs?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Remythologization.
(c) Recantered mythology.
(d) Reinforced symbology.

9. What was the myth of the cave associated with?
(a) The Winter Solstice.
(b) The Autumn Equinox.
(c) The Spring Equinox.
(d) The Summer Solstice.

10. What was the solar mystery?
(a) The sun is static and immobile.
(b) The afterlife is in the Earth.
(c) Nobody dies or is born.
(d) There is no end to creation.

11. What historical event happened at Qumran?
(a) Jesus announced himself.
(b) Mary spoke of her son.
(c) All of these.
(d) John baptized people.

12. What does the Tristan say cannot be separated?
(a) Darkness and light.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) Man and God.
(d) Suffering and bliss.

13. Who taught of a God of Light?
(a) Zomnipall.
(b) Zeuss.
(c) Zoroaster.
(d) Zodiac.

14. What horrible thing did King Kansa order?
(a) A holocaust.
(b) Rape of women.
(c) A mass murder of priests.
(d) Infanticide.

15. What did Campbell say mythology was a language of?
(a) Religious experience.
(b) Truth.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Campbell say was the main benefit of groupings?

2. What did Campbell say needed to stop being fragmented?

3. What did men cling to during the Passover?

4. What did Campbell say Freud did to mythology?

5. What did the Jews think would happen when the Messiah came?

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