Deck 3: Myth and the Origin of the Humanities

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Myth of the hero

Answer 1

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Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Meant to remind young girls of what can happen when they indulge in practices forbidden by religion and family.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ An appropriate starting place for the study of humanities

Answer 3

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Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Punished for turning around after being told not to.

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Paradise Lost

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ "There's always room at the top."

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Rousseau's noble savage is one of these

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ "In the beginning was the Word..."

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ According to Jung, they are transmitted genetically from one generation to another through the collective unconscious.

Question 10

____ 4. Opponents of Jung's theory of archetypes maintain that mythology was originallyspread along trade routes.

Question 11

____ 1. A reading of Yeats's poem "Leda and the Swan" is more meaningful if we know the famous myth behind it.

Question 12

____ 5. Circles abound in early mythology because of an ancient belief that life goesnowhere.

Question 13

____ 2. The hero's early recognition for greatness satisfies our universal need for acceptance.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Had the head of a bull and the body of a man.

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ In his review of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, critic Anthony Lane writes that "every one of us harbors an inextinguishable need..." What is it a need for?

Question 16

____ 3. The heroic deed performed by Oedipus led to a suicide.

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Ancient symbol that suggested for Jung the organization of the mind.

Question 18

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Fairy tale

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Removing a sword from a stone provided early recognition for him.

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Minotaur
2. Gospel of John
3. world myth
4. childhood myth
5. La Llorona
6. John Milton
7. Carl Jung
8. Persephone
9. mandala
10. mythology
11. Lot's wife
12. romantic love
13. Orpheus
14. the circle
15. Elysian Fields
16. popular mythology
17. Arthur
18. Pandora
19. archetypes
___ Allowed everything but hope to escape.

Question 21

Creation myths deal with

A) how to tap into our inner creativity.
B) the special someone.
C) the ecology of the natural world.
D) bringing rich harvests to the earth.
E) the unsolved question of our world's origin.

Question 22

The Western version of the myth of life as a journey implies

A) a random series of disconnected happenings.
B) life is a circle.
C) a purpose and a final destination.
D) that we are heading down the wrong path.
E) the Golden Age will come at last.

Question 23

____ 12. Non-Western cultures do not have hero stories.

Question 24

The well-known fairy tales have all but

A) class distinction.
B) women who think for themselves.
C) a dark side.
D) moral lessons.
E) emphasis on attractiveness.

Question 25

____ 13. The film Shane was a classic western reflecting the underlying myth of the journey.

Question 26

All of the following except one were involved in one or more hero myths.

A) The hero is reunited with his lost love just before he dies.
B) The hero does not at first know that he is of royal parentage.
C) The hero does not always succeed.
D) The hero solves a puzzle.
E) The hero loses favor with his people.

Question 27

____ 14. The philosophy of Confucius is mainly concerned with the importance of salvation and redemption.

Question 28

____ 10. The Greeks believed their gods were made in the image of humanity.

Question 29

Freudians may interpret the Minotaur myth as

A) the stages in the development of human intellect.
B) a young person's arriving at sexual maturity.
C) enduring guilt over the male's attraction to his mother.
D) the symbolic death of the father.
E) parents' wish for the child's future prosperity.

Question 30

Jung's label for genetically transmitted archetypes

A) behaviorism
B) memory
C) monomyth
D) genetic disease
E) collective unconscious

Question 31

Not typically found in the life of the mythic hero, according to Otto Rank

A) a spiritual revelation followed by renunciation of the self
B) early recognition of greatness
C) miraculous birth
D) rejection by followers
E) appreciation after death

Question 32

____ 9. Taoist philosophy denies the electromagnetic theory of nature.

Question 33

____ 7. In Hindu tradition, karma is punishment for sin.

Question 34

____ 6. An ancient story says the monk who brought Buddhism to China had no legs.

Question 35

The 1959 Brazilian film Black Orpheus is an updated version of a myth involving

A) two sisters who plot each other's death for love of the same man.
B) a ritual held during Carnivale in which the participants vow to refrain from eating meat during Lent.
C) a descent into the underworld.
D) three goddesses asking a mortal musician to decide which of them is the most beautiful.
E) a dangerous quest for a sunken ship.

Question 36

____ 11. The hero is an archetype found in almost every culture.

Question 37

The belief that things were much better in the past is related to the myth of

A) archetypes.
B) the circle.
C) the mysterious stranger.
D) mystic numbers.
E) the mandala.

Question 38

____ 8. In the humanities, a myth is the term for something false that is widely believed.

Question 39

The scholar who maintained that we are all born with a recognition of shared archetypes that we use to understand human experience was

A) Carl Jung.
B) John Milton.
C) James Joyce.
D) Edith Hamilton.
E) Bruno Bettelheim.

Question 40

____ 15. Many myths attempt to explain the existence of human suffering.

Question 41

To gain his early recognition, Theseus had to lift a heavy stone that covered

A) the Golden Fleece.
B) the Sirens.
C) the Lorelei.
D) a pair of sandals.
E) a picture of his mother.

Question 42

The archetypal hero's great deed

A) goes unnoticed
B) is always purely mental
C) occurs in young adulthood
D) always involves dragon slaying
E) is self-destructive

Question 43

Famous archetype associated with Rousseau:

A) the number seven
B) the River Styx
C) the Holy Grail
D) that untravelled land from which no one ever returns
E) the noble savage

Question 44

Another name for the mythical "special someone" is

A) Chuck Norris.
B) the significant other.
C) Pandora.
D) the Noble Savage.
E) the mysterious stranger.

Question 45

An ancient circle on Salisbury Plain:

A) Stonehenge
B) Easter Island
C) Galapagos
D) the Beagle
E) Navajo burial site