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

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

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

4. What is often caused by an accident or a deliberate change in circumstances?
(a) The push to leave home
(b) The call to adventure
(c) The movement away from the norm
(d) The first obstacle

5. Swallowing, Campbell suggests, is a symbol of a kind of spiritual _______.
(a) Rebirth
(b) Death
(c) Revelation
(d) Understanding

Short Answer Questions

1. The first section of this chapter is "The Crossing of the _________ Threshold."

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.

3. What flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?

4. Who is the person/character/animal which announces the beginning of the journey?

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

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