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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose attempt to rescue his sister from the underworld failed, causing him to be pursued by demons?
(a) Izanagi
(b) Sang Lu
(c) Rhi Bung
(d) Inyanta

2. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.
(a) Immoral, ugly
(b) Right, positive
(c) Unjust, plain
(d) Just, attractive

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

4. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?
(a) Myth and Dreams
(b) Myth and Society
(c) The Monomyth
(d) The Power of Myth

5. Which god drove people mad if they gave him any trouble?
(a) Dionysius
(b) Pan
(c) Apollo
(d) Zeus

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

7. Who are supposed to be following a world "redeemer" and are better known to history for their colonial barbarity?
(a) Buddhists
(b) Christian nations
(c) Spiritual leaders
(d) Hindus

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

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

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

11. Who is the central figure in the second example offered by Campbell, in relation to this person encountering a series of obstacles and is aided by a wise old man along the way?
(a) Female accountant
(b) Male alcoholic
(c) Female musician
(d) Male philosopher

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

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

14. Swallowing, Campbell suggests, is a symbol of a kind of spiritual _______.
(a) Revelation
(b) Death
(c) Understanding
(d) Rebirth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?

2. Many Hero characters discover new _________ inside that which swallowed them.

3. The Hero is on a journey towards _____ with the source of all things.

4. What joins at this central area as described in #28?

5. Who was trapped psychologically in fearful reaction to the world around him?

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