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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. What flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?
(a) Understanding
(b) Beauty
(c) Truth
(d) Peace

2. Who was "swallowed" by the ocean after being dismembered by his evil brother?
(a) Osiris
(b) Set
(c) Tutankamen
(d) Hepuset

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

4. Which hero was swallowed by a giant monster?
(a) Thomas Finbuckle
(b) Randy Finnish
(c) Roland McDougal
(d) Finn MacCool

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) Disturbed
(c) Oedipal
(d) Narcissius

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?

3. Who was turned into a flower for refusing the advances of Apollo?

4. After the first threshold, what immediately happens to the Hero?

5. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?

(see the answer key)

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