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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose example of centuries long sleep does Campbell use?
(a) Snow White
(b) Rapunzel
(c) Sleeping Beauty
(d) Rip Van Winkle

2. Symbols are only the ________ of communication.
(a) Words
(b) Vehicles
(c) Signposts
(d) Images

3. And as a continuation of #110, the Hero also has to ___________ what he's learned.
(a) Hold onto
(b) Acknowledge
(c) Understand
(d) Believe

4. The place of the Hero's ____....is the mid-point or navel of the world.
(a) Death
(b) Faith
(c) Birth
(d) Beginning

5. Campbell believes that Christianity has turned the stories of the Bible from symbolic meanings to shallow _______.
(a) Modernism
(b) Creationism
(c) Literalism
(d) Fundamentalism

6. The man-hero must break the tyrant's control and relate his spiritual ________.
(a) Truth
(b) Power
(c) Understanding
(d) Meaning

7. The Hero is often endowed with the ability to pass back and forth between ______________.
(a) Spirit and non-spirit
(b) The two worlds
(c) Truth and disbelief
(d) Right and wrong

8. Who is shown a vision of the infinite all-powerful Krishna?
(a) Arthina
(b) Rapuja
(c) Arjuna
(d) Arajana

9. The future of each life is contained in the various manifestations of the _____________.
(a) Stories
(b) Myths
(c) Universal goddess
(d) Heroes

10. Over time, the ______ myths have evolved to incorporate symbols and meanings more relevant to those who hear them.
(a) Core
(b) Worthwhile
(c) Popular
(d) Relevant

11. Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography...it is ________.
(a) Weakened
(b) Made more relevant
(c) Killed
(d) Made powerful

12. When does the human being in question become at one with the source of human energy during this pattern of #140?
(a) Birth
(b) Death
(c) Marriage
(d) Deep sleep/dreamless experience

13. The Hero is free to live because he has lived true _________.
(a) Understanding
(b) Freedom
(c) Peace
(d) Meaning

14. What is the example of the literal/physical ascent into Heaven?
(a) Christ's transfiguration
(b) Christ's crucifixion
(c) Christ's prayer
(d) Christ's death

15. What can not be directly compared to dream?
(a) Faiths
(b) Spiritual texts
(c) Myths
(d) Stories

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hero's reward is to live without __________ to the world and to daily life.

2. The _______ exists in the conscious; the conscious opens itself to the sub-conscious.

3. What is one way, Campbell suggests, humans can use to separate themselves from their outer layers and connect with spirit?

4. Dreams have a direct relationship with the individual experience of the ___________.

5. The process through which humanity emerges and returns to that from which it emerged is called the ______ cycle.

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