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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?
(a) His family
(b) Dragons
(c) His faith
(d) Evil

2. What is the princess initially playing with in the fairy tale?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A frog
(c) A golden hoop
(d) A golden ball

3. Who is the person associated with journeying to find the Golden Fleece?
(a) Jacob
(b) Thomas
(c) Joseph
(d) Jason

4. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?
(a) The Monomyth
(b) The Power of Myth
(c) Myth and Society
(d) Myth and Dreams

5. Who was "swallowed" by the ocean after being dismembered by his evil brother?
(a) Set
(b) Tutankamen
(c) Hepuset
(d) Osiris

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?

2. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.

3. What is the third step in the typical Hero's journey?

4. What has summoned the Hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown?

5. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?

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