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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is often caused by an accident or a deliberate change in circumstances?
(a) The call to adventure
(b) The first obstacle
(c) The push to leave home
(d) The movement away from the norm

2. The Hero is on a journey towards _____ with the source of all things.
(a) Meeting
(b) Rising
(c) Unification
(d) Manifesting

3. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?
(a) Sadness
(b) Nothingness
(c) Death
(d) Peace

4. How might the Father figure be described?
(a) Without description
(b) All vengeful
(c) Dual-natured
(d) All loving

5. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?
(a) Dreams
(b) Journeys
(c) Archetypes
(d) Inexhaustible energies

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is often portrayed as being one with his spouse, Shakti?

2. Throughout all myths and stories of the world, there is a central _______.

3. Whose womb nourishes life?

4. What Oriental philosophy corresponds with the idea of duality?

5. The archetypal truths found in the Hero's journey can inform and enlighten life, leading to understanding, that then might aid in leading to psycho-spiritual _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the idea of "The Crossing of the First Threshold."

2. What happens in "The Refusal of the Return"?

3. Why is the atonement such an important stage for the Hero's Journey?

4. What occurs as a result of the encounter with the Father?

5. Summarize the content of "The Magic Flight."

6. What happens when the Hero is a young woman? How does "The Meeting with the Goddess" take place?

7. What is the duality as Campbell sees it in Christianity?

8. Describe the content of "The Belly of the Whale."

9. What is the main content of the section, "The Hero and the God"?

10. What are some of the psychological weapons a Hero might use to get back the obstacle that lies in his path at the start?

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