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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the section, "Rescue from _________," the Hero is unable or unwilling to leave the place to which he's journeyed.
(a) Peril
(b) Trouble
(c) Without
(d) Within

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

3. When the Hero has done what the God or Goddess has asked, what does he receive in return?
(a) Protection and support
(b) All knowledge in the world
(c) Punishment
(d) Wealth

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

5. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?
(a) Joy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Frustration
(d) Happiness

6. Who are blocked by sensual, sexual, and capricious female spirits?
(a) Greek gods
(b) Roman emperors
(c) Russian peasantry
(d) African Hottentots

7. The archetypal truths found in the Hero's journey can inform and enlighten life, leading to understanding, that then might aid in leading to psycho-spiritual _________.
(a) Truth
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Nirvana
(d) Selflessness

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

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

10. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?
(a) Nothingness
(b) Peace
(c) Sadness
(d) Death

11. What does Campbell say all cities build in order to represent the idea of this central area?
(a) A library
(b) A pit
(c) A pyre
(d) A religious temple

12. In "Supernatural Aid," what does Campbell suggest these types of figures are....
(a) Deities
(b) Male
(c) Invisible
(d) Female

13. Comedy and tragedy are both aspects of the same experience of _______.
(a) Growth
(b) Movement
(c) Living
(d) Understanding

14. Swallowing is a kind of death of the overwhelming sense of _______ or self that must be sacrificed if true enlightenment is to be achieved.
(a) Self-importance
(b) Image
(c) Ego
(d) Identity

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?

2. The Hero's journey begins by "descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual _________."

3. Who was "swallowed" by the ocean after being dismembered by his evil brother?

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

5. By what are the Hero's first steps into the new world blocked?

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