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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. How can a myth or ritual be preserved to the changing environment or social conditions of the culture?
(a) Adapting
(b) Oral traditions
(c) Religious ceremonies
(d) Written dialogue

2. What part of myths are an unchanging part of mankind's experience?
(a) Myths about birth
(b) Myths about burial rituals
(c) Myths about human development
(d) Myths about death and dying

3. From where did the clergy during medieval times indicate their authority was derived?
(a) Their own meditations and personal contact with God
(b) Sins of mankind
(c) God
(d) Inescapable supernatural laws that rule over the natural world

4. What is the best definition of a myth?
(a) Society's unspoken rules
(b) Body of stories and legends
(c) Cultural norms
(d) Written history of mankind

5. What do Campbell and Moyers claim has led to a lack of awareness of mythological foundations of western society's heritage?
(a) Technology
(b) Modernization
(c) Social pageantry
(d) Exclusion of classical studies

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the snake (from the creation story) regarded in India?

2. In the Pawnee legend, how does Tirawa tell man he will show himself?

3. A myth embraces both of the following: ______________________.

4. How does Campbell describe the slaughter of the buffalo herds by the white man in the nineteenth century?

5. How many creation myths does Campbell share from the Bible?

(see the answer key)

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