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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the center, a source from which all truth flows?
(a) The universe
(b) The void
(c) The blackness
(d) World navel

2. What is the experience of the outer world in relation to the psychological interpretation of the answer to #140?
(a) Conscious dreaming
(b) Waking experience
(c) Interactive reasoning
(d) Sleep

3. What was the origin of the story about the warrior who achieved enlightenment, returned to the world, saw that humans weren't ready for what he had to teach, and then withdrew into the spiritual world?
(a) Hindu
(b) Arabic
(c) Indian
(d) French

4. Whose example of centuries long sleep does Campbell use?
(a) Rip Van Winkle
(b) Sleeping Beauty
(c) Snow White
(d) Rapunzel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a civilization begins to reinterpret its mythology...the ________ goes out of it.

2. Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography...it is ________.

3. Many saints chose to _____ while in deep communion with God, as opposing to preaching and sharing his word.

4. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?

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

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