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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Hero's journey begins by "descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual _________."
(a) Mystery
(b) Map
(c) Understanding
(d) Labyrinth

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

4. Throughout all myths and stories of the world, there is a central _______.
(a) Image
(b) Moral
(c) Truth
(d) Idea

5. Which god drove people mad if they gave him any trouble?
(a) Dionysius
(b) Pan
(c) Zeus
(d) Apollo

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hero's reward is to live without __________ to the world and to daily life.

2. Whose attempt to rescue his sister from the underworld failed, causing him to be pursued by demons?

3. 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?

4. Heroes in what tend to bring enlightenment to the community?

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

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