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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we have to be shown if the Hero's goal of inspiring humanity is to be met?
(a) Frailty
(b) Mistakes
(c) Human success
(d) The truth

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

3. 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) Archetypes
(c) Dreams
(d) Journeys

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

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

6. Heroes in what tend to bring enlightenment to the community?
(a) Family stories
(b) Wars
(c) Fairy tales
(d) Scrolls

7. The encounter with the Father is a symbol of ________.
(a) Ritual
(b) Growth
(c) Initiation
(d) Movement

8. Who was in love with Jason and thus helped him in his quest?
(a) Methusa
(b) Trinia
(c) Hera
(d) Medea

9. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."
(a) Power
(b) Imagination
(c) Myth
(d) World navel

10. Who is often portrayed as being one with his spouse, Shakti?
(a) Shakra
(b) Shinta
(c) Shiva
(d) Shina

11. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?
(a) The God
(b) The Hero
(c) The Victor
(d) The Mover

12. Who was turned into a flower for refusing the advances of Apollo?
(a) Hera
(b) Aphrodite
(c) Daphne
(d) Diana

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

14. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?
(a) Rituals
(b) Arguments
(c) Gifts
(d) Dreams

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as someone who is vengeful and patriarchal?

2. What is the source of these inexhaustible energies?

3. What is the goal of the Hero's journey?

4. What is a celebration and manifestation of the joyous truth that exists alongside the pain of life?

5. 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?

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