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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, The Gift of the Goddess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Campbell compare the caves with cave drawings?
(a) Primitive oral stories
(b) Famous paintings by the great artists
(c) Historical records
(d) Cathedrals

2. With what is the Goddess identified?
(a) Earth
(b) Night
(c) Moon
(d) Stars

3. Which of the following is not one of the more sophisticated concepts of God?
(a) Creator of the World
(b) Supreme Being
(c) Ultimate Lord of the Universe
(d) Giver of life

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

5. Which of the following is a Greek legend from which Campbell quotes?
(a) Odysseus
(b) Buddha
(c) Don Quizote
(d) Celtics

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Campbell and Moyers say people visit the Holy Land?

3. Where was the physical scope of Biblical mythology?

4. According to Campbell, what is the function of a mythology?

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

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