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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The philosophy of love is grafted onto the underlying saga of whose resistance to the Anglo Saxon invasion of Britian?
(a) Albigensian
(b) Celtic
(c) Arthurian
(d) Troubadours

2. Campbell indicates the troubadours and their ideas about love were associated with which movement?
(a) Albigensian
(b) Anglo Saxon
(c) Minnesingers
(d) Arthyruian

3. Which of the following can be said that occurs in the stories of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Moses?
(a) Common elements
(b) No commonalities
(c) Similar features
(d) Exact same story, different geographical areas

4. What two symbols are combined in a powerful union through the Goddess Nut?
(a) Sunrise and sunset
(b) Moon and sun
(c) Heavenly body and mother earth
(d) Mother earth and the goddess

5. Of what kind of myths and legends does Campbell provide specific examples?
(a) Those involving Jesus only
(b) Those involving life and renewal
(c) Those involving death and suffering
(d) Those involving rebirth

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

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

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

9. What region has symbols of the bull and boar representing male power?
(a) European
(b) Asian
(c) African
(d) Mediterranean

10. What does Campbell indicate is a relatively recent development in the history of mankind?
(a) Depiction of God as a male figure
(b) Similarities between Judeo-Christian and Moslem religions
(c) Domination of Goddesses in mythology
(d) Males of both dogmas

11. Who formalizes the dogma of Mary being the Mother of God?
(a) Roman Catholic Church
(b) Notre Dame Council
(c) Greek culture
(d) Council of Ephesus

12. Who does Moses meet on the summit of a mountain?
(a) God
(b) Yahweh
(c) Buddha
(d) Jesus

13. Which of the following was not a major river which played an important part in the development of societies and cultures?
(a) Ganges
(b) Amazon
(c) Nile
(d) Indus

14. What does Campbell indicate is identified as the natural choice for supreme being?
(a) There is no clear choice
(b) Savior
(c) Mother
(d) Father

15. What is God in the Oriental culture?
(a) Manifestation of the universe
(b) Creator of the universe
(c) Keeper of the universe
(d) Survivor of the universe

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the sunrise depicted by the Goddess Nut in Egypt?

2. The psychology of love does not affect which of the following in regard to knights?

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

4. Who wrote "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero?"

5. Which of the following is immortal and voluntarily participates in the sorrows of the world?

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