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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 understand
(b) Don't believe
(c) Don't care about
(d) Don't want to hear

2. Where are the Maori from?
(a) Australia
(b) Hawaii
(c) New Guinea
(d) New Zealand

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

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

5. What is Campbell really saying is endless in terms of its process?
(a) Experience with spirit
(b) Heroism
(c) Life
(d) Learning

6. Intellect and language are too ________; symbols and myth are boundless in their capacity.
(a) Small
(b) Limited
(c) Large
(d) Unlimited

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

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

9. What is the simple answer to why the Hero would want to return to a world after his journey?
(a) It's impossible to avoid.
(b) It's necessary.
(c) It's part of the book.
(d) There is no simple answer.

10. Dreams have a direct relationship with the individual experience of the ___________.
(a) Dreamer
(b) Understanding of the analyst
(c) Outcome
(d) Environment

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

12. The characteristics of the physical world are ultimately a kind of ___________.
(a) Disguise
(b) Power
(c) Clothing
(d) Illusion

13. What is the second effect of the cosmogonic emanations of universal power?
(a) Framing of the world stage of space
(b) Movement into spiritual understanding
(c) Production of life
(d) Energy buildup

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for one emergence, one living, and one return?

2. What does Campbell attempt to show relates within mythology?

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

4. What is the purpose of baptism, at least on its surface?

5. The Hero is free to live because he has lived true _________.

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