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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who vanquished the dragon?
(a) Christan St. Martha
(b) Contance Emeritus
(c) Reginald Theberry
(d) Jonas St. Thomas

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

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

10. Campbell notes that many cultures have an explanation for the process of life/noise emerging from ________.
(a) Nothingness/silence
(b) Birth
(c) Death
(d) Ego/superego.

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

12. The _______ exists in the conscious; the conscious opens itself to the sub-conscious.
(a) Way
(b) Sub-conscious
(c) Meaning
(d) Truth

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

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

15. Death can be just as dangerous as the journey into _________.
(a) Life
(b) Peace
(c) Spirit
(d) Truth

Short Answer Questions

1. Symbols are only the ________ of communication.

2. The second task of the man-hero is to transcend the _________ spiritually.

3. 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.

4. Where are the Maori from?

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

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