View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapons impress the answer to #50 more than swords?
(a) Groveling
(b) Complete subservience
(c) Gifts
(d) Determination and persistance

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

3. How might the Father figure be described?
(a) Without description
(b) Dual-natured
(c) All loving
(d) All vengeful

4. What is the goal of the Hero's journey?
(a) Commitment
(b) To win
(c) Union
(d) Peace

5. It is indeed the Hero's responsibility to accept that part of himself and to become the _________.
(a) Warrior
(b) Mother
(c) Mystery
(d) Father

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

7. What kind of myth is the story of the man who dreamed of killing his father and taking care of his mother?
(a) Oedipal
(b) Unrealistic
(c) Narcissius
(d) Disturbed

8. ________ in the picture language of mythology represents the totality of what can be known.
(a) Woman
(b) Man
(c) Spirit
(d) World navel

9. What is the ultimate boon for the Hero?
(a) The perilous journey
(b) The struggle of internal thought
(c) Knowledge of all things
(d) Connection with the eternal

10. Whose womb nourishes life?
(a) Tacheles
(b) The Virgin Mary
(c) Wankentanka
(d) Goddess-Mother

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

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

13. The Hero's journey begins by "descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual _________."
(a) Labyrinth
(b) Understanding
(c) Mystery
(d) Map

14. The Hero may or may not be aided by a __________ or other individuals along the way.
(a) Old man
(b) Supernatural guide
(c) Book
(d) Old woman

15. Whose serenity, peace and transcendence does Campbell seem to say is ideal?
(a) Christ
(b) Buddha
(c) Boddhissatva
(d) Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the quote at the beginning of this section?

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

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

4. What Oriental philosophy corresponds with the idea of duality?

5. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 403 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample