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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "No longer can the Hero rest in _______ with the Goddess....for she has become the queen of sin."
(a) Peace
(b) Innocence
(c) Safety
(d) Calm

2. The first section of this chapter is "The Crossing of the _________ Threshold."
(a) Most Important
(b) First
(c) Meaningless
(d) Only

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

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

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

6. The title of this section is "__________ with the Father."
(a) Relating
(b) Atonement
(c) Communicating
(d) Peace

7. After the first threshold, what immediately happens to the Hero?
(a) He becomes reborn.
(b) He is swallowed.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He ends his journey.

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

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

10. Who is the author of the quote at the beginning of this section?
(a) Constance Gertrude
(b) Jon Rutheford
(c) Isaiah Berlin
(d) Jonathan Edwards

11. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.
(a) Mythology
(b) Faith
(c) Belief
(d) Story

12. The quest for the ultimate boon manifests in archetypes because humanity craves ______.
(a) Re-connection
(b) Truth
(c) Meaning
(d) Answers

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

14. 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?
(a) Inexhaustible energies
(b) Journeys
(c) Archetypes
(d) Dreams

15. In many Hero stories, the Hero decides __________ after his journey.
(a) To find another journey
(b) Not to return
(c) To return
(d) To die

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Hero encounter if he does not do the bidding of the God or Goddess?

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

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

4. Heroes in what tend to bring enlightenment to the community?

5. What does the Hero have to do when he returns from his journey?

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