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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the spiritual city, and thus center for those who practice the Muslim faith?
(a) Babylon
(b) The city of their mosque
(c) Mecca
(d) Their city of birth

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

3. What flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?
(a) Truth
(b) Beauty
(c) Understanding
(d) Peace

4. How many types of journeys are available when the Hero decides to return?
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) One

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

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

7. To what do the nurturing and life giving aspects of the Ogre Father and Goddess Mother archetypes correspond?
(a) Superego
(b) Ego
(c) Freudian eros
(d) Freudian pathos

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

9. "The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the ____ of the known into the unknown."
(a) Wall
(b) Veil
(c) Knowing
(d) Understanding

10. Whose withdrawal from the world and the violence of her brother came to an end as a result of a plea from both her fellow gods and from humanity?
(a) Hera
(b) Athena
(c) Artemis
(d) Amaterasu

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

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

13. Many saints chose to _____ while in deep communion with God, as opposing to preaching and sharing his word.
(a) Die
(b) Hide away
(c) Sleep
(d) Leave their homes

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose attempt to rescue his sister from the underworld failed, causing him to be pursued by demons?

3. What is the princess initially playing with in the fairy tale?

4. Whose serenity, peace and transcendence does Campbell seem to say is ideal?

5. What is the connection that is actually being sought?

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