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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. Who is the central figure in the second example offered by Campbell, in relation to this person encountering a series of obstacles and is aided by a wise old man along the way?
(a) Male alcoholic
(b) Male philosopher
(c) Female musician
(d) Female accountant

2. After the first threshold, what immediately happens to the Hero?
(a) He becomes reborn.
(b) He is swallowed.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He ends his journey.

3. Who agrees to come to the rescue of the princess?
(a) A witch
(b) A prince
(c) A frog
(d) A wolf

4. What joins at this central area as described in #28?
(a) Four winds
(b) Every animal
(c) Four directions
(d) All the colors of the wind

5. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?
(a) Joy
(b) Happiness
(c) Tragedy
(d) Frustration

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the figure that returns with the Ten Commandments?

2. 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?

3. What is the center, a source from which all truth flows?

4. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.

5. Swallowing, Campbell suggests, is a symbol of a kind of spiritual _______.

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