1. What tends to happen when the Hero initially refuses the call?
(a) Nothing
(b) They are lost forever
(c) They never do
(d) Imprisonment

2. Swallowing is a kind of death of the overwhelming sense of _______ or self that must be sacrificed if true enlightenment is to be achieved.
(a) Image
(b) Identity
(c) Ego
(d) Self-importance

3. Who is the figure that returns with the Ten Commandments?
(a) David
(b) Moses
(c) Jesus
(d) Jacob

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

5. What kind of myth is the story of the man who dreamed of killing his father and taking care of his mother?
(a) Unrealistic
(b) Narcissius
(c) Oedipal
(d) Disturbed

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. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?

3. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."

4. Throughout all myths and stories of the world, there is a central _______.

5. Comedy and tragedy are both aspects of the same experience of _______.

(see the answer key)

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