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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Hero has two problems when he returns. One problem is that he needs to present what he has learned to those who ___________ his message.
(a) Don't care about
(b) Don't believe
(c) Don't understand
(d) Don't want to hear

2. There is ___________ for the interpretation of myths.
(a) One proper system
(b) No good method
(c) Many a process
(d) No final system

3. What is one way, Campbell suggests, humans can use to separate themselves from their outer layers and connect with spirit?
(a) Hallucinogens
(b) Meditation
(c) Fasting
(d) Prayer

4. In reference to the Hero, Campbell writes, "...the Law lives in him with his unreserved __________."
(a) Consent
(b) Peace
(c) Truth
(d) Balance

5. Who journeyed to the land of timelessness, learned much and came back on the back of a mystical horse?
(a) Osidian
(b) Kenneth
(c) Oisin
(d) Devin

6. Campbell suggests that humanity has become too ___________ and too individualistic to have room for that which transcends that physical world.
(a) Materialistic
(b) Shallow
(c) Isolated
(d) Quiet

7. The spouse of the mother universe is the ____________.
(a) The writer of stories
(b) Hero
(c) The seeker of myths
(d) Invisible unknown.

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

9. What does Campbell quote at length in this section?
(a) Scandanavian bedtime stories
(b) Kalevala
(c) Kretilan verse
(d) Kata Vata

10. What is the experience of the outer world in relation to the psychological interpretation of the answer to #140?
(a) Sleep
(b) Conscious dreaming
(c) Waking experience
(d) Interactive reasoning

11. The world ________ is also _______.
(a) Above, below
(b) Beneath, above
(c) Around, above
(d) Without, within

12. What is the first effect of the cosmogonic emanations of universal power?
(a) Energy buildup
(b) Vibrating noises
(c) Framing of the world stage of space
(d) Quiet

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

14. The man-hero needs to go on a quest for the identity of his __________.
(a) Father
(b) Family
(c) Faith
(d) Mother

15. Who was conceived under supernatural circumstances but ruled with a strong connection to the real world?
(a) Privati
(b) An ancient Chinese emperor
(c) Buddha
(d) A Japanese princess

Short Answer Questions

1. Over time, the ______ myths have evolved to incorporate symbols and meanings more relevant to those who hear them.

2. The man-hero must break the tyrant's control and relate his spiritual ________.

3. Campbell believes that Christianity has turned the stories of the Bible from symbolic meanings to shallow _______.

4. What kind of element is the fire of the ritual in #125?

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

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