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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Medieval festivals often correlate with?
(a) Times of bounty.
(b) Seasonal cycles.
(c) Times of war.
(d) Storm sequences.

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

3. Who first had the idea of a Messiah to bring the end of times?
(a) Jews.
(b) Hinduisms.
(c) Buddhists.
(d) Persians.

4. Where did Mithra's cult flourish?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Rome.
(d) Alexandria.

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

6. Who declared Buddha a beloved son?
(a) The Sun Holder.
(b) The River Serpent.
(c) The Earth Goddess.
(d) The Rain Bringer.

7. What did Campbell say needed to stop being fragmented?
(a) Religious symbols.
(b) All of these.
(c) Dead languages.
(d) World mythology.

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

9. How long did Jesus fast in the desert?
(a) 20 days.
(b) 40 days.
(c) 50 days.
(d) 30 days.

10. What did the Sumarian God need when he created man?
(a) A gardener.
(b) A child.
(c) A friend.
(d) A pet.

11. What did the Jews think would happen when the Messiah came?
(a) A renewal of peace.
(b) A crucifixion.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) A war.

12. How did Campbell define transcendence?
(a) Learning about the past.
(b) Moving beyond something.
(c) Finding an identity.
(d) Shedding sinful ways.

13. Who found Vyasa as a baby?
(a) A priest.
(b) A milkmaid.
(c) A God.
(d) A fisherman.

14. How many creation stories are in Genesis?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What historical event happened at Qumran?

2. What did Thomas Merton study?

3. Who was in the burning bush?

4. How did Campbell respond in question and answer situations?

5. What movie was discussed in the Appendix?

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