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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 4, Sections 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is often portrayed as being one with his spouse, Shakti?
(a) Shakra
(b) Shiva
(c) Shinta
(d) Shina

2. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."
(a) World navel
(b) Imagination
(c) Myth
(d) Power

3. Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography...it is ________.
(a) Weakened
(b) Made more relevant
(c) Made powerful
(d) Killed

4. What includes specific references, that Campbell quotes, to the human body becoming one with the parts of the gods?
(a) Koran
(b) Torah
(c) Bible
(d) Book of the Dead

5. The end of the life of the _______ is portrayed as a return to the state in which life and consciousness came into being.
(a) Universe
(b) Goddess
(c) God
(d) Mother

Short Answer Questions

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

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. The Hero encounters a series of ______ that must be overcome in order for his journey to continue.

4. What can not be directly compared to dream?

5. Who is the goddess from the Hindu goddess-virgin story?

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