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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which ritual from Christianity does Campbell focus his efforts?
(a) Baptism
(b) Reconciliation
(c) Confirmation
(d) Eucharist

2. At what age was the destiny of the Celtic warrior hero manifested?
(a) 5 years old
(b) 4 years old
(c) 18 years old
(d) 1 year old

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

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

5. Before emergence, spirit was all _______.
(a) An illusion
(b) The same
(c) Beauty
(d) One

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Separation of ___________ is a universal symbol for the separation from the spirit.
(a) Right and wrong
(b) Male and female
(c) Truth and fiction
(d) Yin and yang

15. Who is the goddess from the Hindu goddess-virgin story?
(a) Paramona
(b) Prekesh
(c) Privita
(d) Parvati

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the transforming medium?

2. Who journeyed to the land of timelessness, learned much and came back on the back of a mystical horse?

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

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

5. Death is the opportunity for ______ with the Unmoved Mover.

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