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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Campbell describe dreams?
(a) All of these.
(b) Transcending.
(c) Universal.
(d) Personal.

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

3. What did Campbell say people cannot view at a glance?
(a) Their future.
(b) Their wills.
(c) Their existence.
(d) Their past.

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

5. What did the other half of people in religion say about what half of the people said was truth?
(a) They were not to be trusted.
(b) They were lies.
(c) They were teaching tools.
(d) They were useful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did 'tat tvam asi' mean?

2. Who saw religion as a protection from experience?

3. What did translating the Roman Catholic Mass cause?

4. What did Campbell say about the two neighboring lands of the country talked about in Chapter 2?

5. What ceased the power of what Campbell said connected people to the infinite?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did scholars and theologians differ when studying metaphor?

2. What did Campbell say was the third function of metaphor?

3. What did Campbell say Westerners were yearning for?

4. What was the metaphor used by Paul to describe the crucifixion?

5. What was the Japanese idea about individuals, and what was the comparison made there?

6. What about men did Western religions think needed purification?

7. What formed the mystery of the Orient?

8. When did Campbell start talking about his ideas of myth being a lie?

9. Why did Campbell like visiting Japan so much?

10. What did Campbell say was the first function of metaphor?

(see the answer keys)

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