History of Mythology Study Quiz

The belief that myth serves to connect people to an ideal past.

• Golden Age

• Edenism

• Iron Age

• Paradisical Past

Mythoi/Mythos originally was used to mean...

• falsehood

• divine truth

• ancient, religious story with few believers

• none of the above

The Volk mythological perspective asserts

• Myths have a seed of truth to them but have been exaggerated

• People and their nations are shaped by their myths

• Mythology is a connection to a semi-divine past

• none of the above

Early anthropologists

• believed myths could provide clues to ancient people's lives

• believed myths had no value in their work.

• believed myths were completely historically correct

• all of the above

Comparative mythology perspectives were sometimes flawed because they...

• examined only the similarities between culture's myths

• evaluated cultures to be inferior or superior based on myths

• examined only the differences between culture's myths

• none of the above

Which perspective tied to Freud and Jung believed that myths derived from the unconscious mind

• Euhemerism

• Golden Age

• Volk

• Psychoanalytical perspective

Who is credited with the idea that all hero myths essentially contain the same elements?

• Plato

• Herder

• Strauss

• Joseph Campbell

In the twenty-first century, many scholars believe that _______ perspective is correct.

• Structuralist

• 
  Psychoanalytic

• Campbell's

• Trick question. Many theories have their strengths and value

Who is credited with degrading the term mythology to mean something less than true?

• Campbell

• Plato

• Hesiod

• Freud

For this class, we will define myth as...

• an absolute truth

• absolute fiction

• a story held by some (ourselves or others) to be sacred

• none of the above