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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Church of the Middle Ages indicate that marriages are not?
(a) Arranged
(b) Political in nature
(c) Social in nature
(d) Based on love

2. To what figure from Germanic and Celtic myths did Campbell expose his students?
(a) Clown figures
(b) Mother figures
(c) Father figures
(d) Archetypical figures

3. What color was the knight that was linked in a myth with SIr Gawain?
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Green
(d) Red

4. Whose legend does Campbell recall which is in a similar vein to Sir Gawain's legend?
(a) Buddha
(b) Yahweh
(c) Crucifixion
(d) Iroquois legend

5. Which of the following cultures used the circle to represent the embodiment of the center of their mythology?
(a) Buddists
(b) Aztecs
(c) Christians
(d) Jews

6. Which type of societies and cultures identified with the Goddess?
(a) Those near the ocean
(b) Those with the most power and knowledge
(c) Those in the mountains
(d) Those in the river valleys

7. Which of the following describes how the Hebrew tradition referred to the Canaanite Goddess?
(a) Mother of all that is earth
(b) Goddess of all
(c) Abomination
(d) Destroying mother earth

8. Which of the following is true about sexual desire according to Campbell?
(a) Necessary
(b) Required
(c) Unnecessary
(d) Impersonal

9. In what year was the Albigensian Crusade begun?
(a) 1200
(b) 1115
(c) 1310
(d) 1209

10. How do the troubadours describe love?
(a) The goal
(b) The only
(c) The ideal
(d) The means

11. An indication of how Western culture might have evolved had Hebrew mythology not survived can be seen in ___________________________.
(a) Asian religions
(b) religions of Africa
(c) religions of South America
(d) religions of India

12. How is the sunrise depicted by the Goddess Nut in Egypt?
(a) Combining it with th emoon
(b) Giving birth to it in the east
(c) Taking it to the mother earth for renewal
(d) Swallowing it in the west

13. Who has never uttered a word of recrimination or complaint toward their persecutors in the Chinese government?
(a) Moses
(b) Dalai Lama
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) Buddhist monks

14. Who wrote "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero?"
(a) Campbell
(b) Tibetan Buddhist monks
(c) Dalai Lama
(d) Otto Rank

15. What type of man do Campbell and Moyer say that God is?
(a) Digressive
(b) Evolutionary
(c) Universally
(d) Archetypical

Short Answer Questions

1. The Semitic and Indo-European invaders were mainly what?

2. What does Moses bring back from the summit of the mountain?

3. To what does Campbell attempt to equate the beginning of the Reformation?

4. Which legend of knights is used to affirm the idea of romantic love?

5. What two symbols are combined in a powerful union through the Goddess Nut?

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