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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Sacrifice and Bliss.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following cannot be divorced from a specific culture and environment from the time it occurs?
(a) Writing of a historical nature
(b) Mythology
(c) Rituals
(d) Religion

2. Where was it especially common to find early societies assigning special powers to plants and animals?
(a) High places such as mountains
(b) On plateaus or plains
(c) Near rivers or streams
(d) Low lands

3. In the hunting and gathering society, mythology consisted of appeasing the animal gods. In the farming society it consisted of what?
(a) Appeasing the plant gods
(b) Success of harvest
(c) Appeasing weather gods
(d) Understanding the natural world around them

4. What caused the concept of God to become more of a world savior by the Jews?
(a) Hebrews fighting with the Romans
(b) Roman conquering of many different lands
(c) Hebrews becoming a major force in the East Mediterranean region
(d) The Crusades

5. How were myths and legends handed down before the invention of writing?
(a) Rituals only
(b) They were often lost and not handed down
(c) Oral traditions only
(d) Rituals and oral traditions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Campbell say that he finds is an ideal place for meditation?

2. How many creatures does Aristophanes tell were created at the beginning of time?

3. What is the stage in marriage where a mythological image embodies the sacrifice of the visible for a transcendent good?

4. What does Campbell state about sacred places?

5. How many signs of the zodiac are incorporated into Assyrian temples?

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