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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. Which fairy tale does Campbell choose to use in the beginning of this section?
(a) The Frog Prince
(b) Three Little Pigs
(c) Hansel and Gretel
(d) Sleeping Beauty

2. What is the source of these inexhaustible energies?
(a) The Goddess
(b) Earth
(c) Sub-conscious
(d) The God

3. What is the third step in the typical Hero's journey?
(a) The setting of the accident
(b) The return home
(c) The call to action
(d) The appearance of a guide

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

5. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.
(a) Faith
(b) Mythology
(c) Story
(d) Belief

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of myth is the story of the man who dreamed of killing his father and taking care of his mother?

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

3. Which hero was swallowed by a giant monster?

4. By what are the Hero's first steps into the new world blocked?

5. Who are blocked by sensual, sexual, and capricious female spirits?

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