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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."
(a) Stealing
(b) Remembering
(c) Re-attainment
(d) Fighting

2. What is the princess initially playing with in the fairy tale?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A golden ball
(c) A frog
(d) A golden hoop

3. What has summoned the Hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown?
(a) Fate
(b) God
(c) Light
(d) Destiny

4. What kind of preacher was the author of the quote at the beginning of this chapter and section?
(a) Catholic
(b) Mormon
(c) Protestant
(d) Puritan

5. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?
(a) His faith
(b) Dragons
(c) Evil
(d) His family

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

7. What is the ultimate example of #82?
(a) Confucius' writings
(b) Moses' journey
(c) Christ's acension
(d) Buddha's enlightenment

8. Who is described as someone who is vengeful and patriarchal?
(a) God
(b) Man
(c) Preachers
(d) Faith

9. Who was trapped psychologically in fearful reaction to the world around him?
(a) Zeus
(b) Minos
(c) Nike
(d) Apollo

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

11. What is the connection that is actually being sought?
(a) Wealth
(b) Spiritual transcendence
(c) Beauty within self and life
(d) Love

12. Who is both of the world and of the spirit, both male and female?
(a) Jesus
(b) Boddhisattva
(c) Apollo
(d) Buddha

13. What Oriental philosophy corresponds with the idea of duality?
(a) Wabi Sabi
(b) Feng Shui
(c) Black and White
(d) Yin and Yang

14. Who agrees to come to the rescue of the princess?
(a) A wolf
(b) A prince
(c) A frog
(d) A witch

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of these inexhaustible energies?

2. "No longer can the Hero rest in _______ with the Goddess....for she has become the queen of sin."

3. Swallowing is a kind of death of the overwhelming sense of _______ or self that must be sacrificed if true enlightenment is to be achieved.

4. What is this transcendent source worthy of, according to Campbell?

5. When the Hero has done what the God or Goddess has asked, what does he receive in return?

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