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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Campbell's previously published book?
(a) Tales of Love and Marriage
(b) The Hero's Adventure
(c) The Hero with a Thousand Faces
(d) Masks of Eternity

2. What seems to be a commonality among all cultures in relation to God according to Campbell?
(a) Reliance on God to set rules
(b) Stories about God to pass down
(c) Introduction of similarities to other Gods
(d) Identification and union with God

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

4. What does Jesus do when he returns from the desert?
(a) Begins preaching his message
(b) Sits under the tree of immortal knowledge
(c) Is baptised
(d) Goes to the summit of the mountain

5. Which of the following is immortal and voluntarily participates in the sorrows of the world?
(a) Tibetan Buddhist Monks
(b) Nirvana
(c) Bodhisattva
(d) Jesus Christ

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Campbell indicate is a relatively recent development in the history of mankind?

2. What type of man do Campbell and Moyer say that God is?

3. Who crushed the Albigensians?

4. Which of the following cultures used the circle to represent the embodiment of the center of their mythology?

5. When does Jesus go into the the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis for measuring and recording time?

2. By the middle ages, to what were the preponderance of Cathedrals dedicated?

3. What placed the Goddess as a counterpart to the male God who judges and punishes mankind?

4. In what major religious icons can common elements be found?

5. What does the title of Chapter 5, The Hero's Adventure, indicate to the reader?

6. How does the hero in a myth become a hero?

7. What are liturgies?

8. What is the mandala in the Buddhist tradition?

9. How does Campbell describe the acceptance of the concept of romantic love by contemporary western society?

10. From where does the name of the Ganges River come?

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