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

2. Symbols are only the ________ of communication.
(a) Words
(b) Images
(c) Vehicles
(d) Signposts

3. By what are the Hero's first steps into the new world blocked?
(a) A Guardian
(b) Spiritual doubt
(c) A wall
(d) Obstacles

4. What does Campbell attempt to show relates within mythology?
(a) Art
(b) Religion
(c) Academia
(d) Psychology

5. What is the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible?
(a) Comedy
(b) Rapture
(c) Lust
(d) Joy

Short Answer Questions

1. What might the Hero be known as?

2. The Hero is free to live because he has lived true _________.

3. If a Hero is a young woman, the young woman's love and transcendent ____ brings about transformation.

4. Who is the androgynous figure Campbell reveals from Christianity?

5. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?

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