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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About Mary: "....her womb, remaining fallow as the primordial abyss, summons to itself...the original power that fertilized the _______."
(a) Void
(b) World
(c) Space
(d) Human race

3. What is the term for one emergence, one living, and one return?
(a) Creation theory
(b) Cosmogonic cycle
(c) Individualism
(d) Universal round

4. Since _____ can be dangerous, Campbell suggests this is why it is marked by detailed, mythically grounded prayer.
(a) Faith
(b) Life
(c) Death
(d) Birth

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

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

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

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

9. The Hero's reward is to live without __________ to the world and to daily life.
(a) Conflict
(b) Commitment
(c) Attachment
(d) Frustration

10. What does Campbell attempt to show relates within mythology?
(a) Psychology
(b) Religion
(c) Academia
(d) Art

11. It can be dangerous to to interpret myths solely as _______ of historical events and circumstances.
(a) Truths
(b) Retellings
(c) Reworkings
(d) Manifestations

12. Death is the opportunity for ______ with the Unmoved Mover.
(a) Resting
(b) Living
(c) Re-union
(d) Peace

13. "The aim is not to _______, but to realize that one is, that essence."
(a) Understand
(b) Give up
(c) See
(d) Believe

14. The process through which humanity emerges and returns to that from which it emerged is called the ______ cycle.
(a) Cosmosis
(b) Cosmogonic
(c) Duality
(d) Creation

15. The man-hero's third task is to _________ the destined power of his spirit.
(a) Ask for
(b) Read about
(c) Believe in
(d) Manifest

Short Answer Questions

1. The future of each life is contained in the various manifestations of the _____________.

2. The characteristics of the physical world are ultimately a kind of ___________.

3. Intellect and language are too ________; symbols and myth are boundless in their capacity.

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

5. When myths are reinterpreted from older times to modern times, the link between the perspectives is ___________.

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