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

2. Why were Osiris and Set created?
(a) To create respect for priests.
(b) To honor a great leader.
(c) So people could meditate on Jesus.
(d) To explain the origin of the sun.

3. What ceased the power of what Campbell said connected people to the infinite?
(a) Literary figures.
(b) Scientific discoveries.
(c) Historical events.
(d) Changes in time.

4. What did the priest become when the Roman Catholic Mass was translated?
(a) A beacon of hope.
(b) An authority.
(c) A leader.
(d) An intermdiary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of religion was seen as a protection from experience?

2. Why was Paul's teaching in Corinth accepted?

3. What did Campbell say was the fulfillment of a man's purpose and direction?

4. What did Campbell say made narratives complex?

5. What did the other half of people in religion say about what half of the people said was truth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Campbell say metaphors truly described?

2. How did Sri Ramakrishna open conversations?

3. What did Campbell say corrupted the poetry of the Bible?

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

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

6. How did the Shinto religion differ from most Western religions?

7. How did Campbell say people in the world viewed metaphor?

8. What did Semitic traditions require that others did not, and why?

9. What did Campbell say Westerners were yearning for?

10. What did Campbell say caused the fall of the Medieval society?

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