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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 2, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first section of this chapter is "The Crossing of the _________ Threshold."
(a) Only
(b) First
(c) Most Important
(d) Meaningless

2. By what are the Hero's first steps into the new world blocked?
(a) Spiritual doubt
(b) A wall
(c) Obstacles
(d) A Guardian

3. Who are blocked by sensual, sexual, and capricious female spirits?
(a) Greek gods
(b) Roman emperors
(c) Russian peasantry
(d) African Hottentots

4. "The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the ____ of the known into the unknown."
(a) Veil
(b) Knowing
(c) Wall
(d) Understanding

5. In the section, "Rescue from _________," the Hero is unable or unwilling to leave the place to which he's journeyed.
(a) Without
(b) Peril
(c) Within
(d) Trouble

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we have to be shown if the Hero's goal of inspiring humanity is to be met?

2. When the Hero has done what the God or Goddess has asked, what does he receive in return?

3. Many Hero characters discover new _________ inside that which swallowed them.

4. What was the origin of the story about the warrior who achieved enlightenment, returned to the world, saw that humans weren't ready for what he had to teach, and then withdrew into the spiritual world?

5. Swallowing is a kind of death of the overwhelming sense of _______ or self that must be sacrificed if true enlightenment is to be achieved.

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