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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) Their city of birth
(b) The city of their mosque
(c) Babylon
(d) Mecca

2. What is a celebration and manifestation of the joyous truth that exists alongside the pain of life?
(a) Blessing energy
(b) Prankster actions
(c) Comedy
(d) Laughter

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

4. The Native American priest calls this central area the absolute ________ of the land beneath the sky.
(a) Equality
(b) Middle
(c) Center
(d) Balance

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

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

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) Enlightenment
(b) Nirvana
(c) Truth
(d) Selflessness

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

9. Whose serenity, peace and transcendence does Campbell seem to say is ideal?
(a) Buddha
(b) Christ
(c) Boddhissatva
(d) Mary

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

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

12. If a Hero is a young woman, the young woman's love and transcendent ____ brings about transformation.
(a) Truth
(b) Faith
(c) Understanding
(d) Wisdom

13. The Hero must accomplish the task of #77 or he will face ________.
(a) Enlightenment too soon
(b) Confusion
(c) A bigger threat than the God
(d) Destruction

14. What is the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible?
(a) Joy
(b) Comedy
(c) Lust
(d) Rapture

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the third step in the typical Hero's journey?

3. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?

4. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."

5. Within the case studies, Campbell introduces in this section, the ________ is challenged, must struggle, and must survive.

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