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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is shown a vision of the infinite all-powerful Krishna?
(a) Arjuna
(b) Arthina
(c) Rapuja
(d) Arajana

2. What is the term for one emergence, one living, and one return?
(a) Universal round
(b) Cosmogonic cycle
(c) Creation theory
(d) Individualism

3. "The aim is not to _______, but to realize that one is, that essence."
(a) Believe
(b) See
(c) Understand
(d) Give up

4. Campbell believes that Christianity has turned the stories of the Bible from symbolic meanings to shallow _______.
(a) Creationism
(b) Literalism
(c) Fundamentalism
(d) Modernism

5. Dreams have a direct relationship with the individual experience of the ___________.
(a) Dreamer
(b) Understanding of the analyst
(c) Environment
(d) Outcome

6. The man-hero's third task is to _________ the destined power of his spirit.
(a) Believe in
(b) Ask for
(c) Read about
(d) Manifest

7. What is the simple answer to why the Hero would want to return to a world after his journey?
(a) It's part of the book.
(b) There is no simple answer.
(c) It's impossible to avoid.
(d) It's necessary.

8. What kind of element is the water of the ritual in #125?
(a) Masculine
(b) Feminine
(c) Both genders
(d) Genderless

9. The place of the Hero's ____....is the mid-point or navel of the world.
(a) Beginning
(b) Faith
(c) Birth
(d) Death

10. The Hero is often endowed with the ability to pass back and forth between ______________.
(a) The two worlds
(b) Truth and disbelief
(c) Right and wrong
(d) Spirit and non-spirit

11. Who destroyed the civilizations of the race that had conquered his own?
(a) King Sargon
(b) King Sanloy
(c) King Alphonsus
(d) King Barbar

12. Every individual member of the human race has a responsibility to become a __________.
(a) Hero
(b) Skeptic
(c) Believer
(d) Questioner

13. When myths are reinterpreted from older times to modern times, the link between the perspectives is ___________.
(a) Unaffected
(b) Strengthened
(c) Made clear
(d) Dissolved

14. What can not be directly compared to dream?
(a) Stories
(b) Myths
(c) Faiths
(d) Spiritual texts

15. The Hero is free to live because he has lived true _________.
(a) Freedom
(b) Meaning
(c) Understanding
(d) Peace

Short Answer Questions

1. Intellect and language are too ________; symbols and myth are boundless in their capacity.

2. What is the first effect of the cosmogonic emanations of universal power?

3. Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography...it is ________.

4. What does Campbell say this ritual in #125 really is a ritual of?

5. What is the experience of the outer world in relation to the psychological interpretation of the answer to #140?

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