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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. The first task of the man-hero is to break down the ____________ to union with God.
(a) Familial discontent
(b) Emotional barriers
(c) Stereotypical obstacles
(d) Physical barriers

2. When myths are reinterpreted from older times to modern times, the link between the perspectives is ___________.
(a) Strengthened
(b) Dissolved
(c) Unaffected
(d) Made clear

3. "The freedom won from the malice of the monster....is symbolized as a _________."
(a) Purse of wealth
(b) God
(c) Book
(d) Woman

4. Who is the transforming medium?
(a) The father of the world
(b) The Hero
(c) The spirit of the earth
(d) The mother of the world

5. What does Campbell say this ritual in #125 really is a ritual of?
(a) Faith
(b) Marriage
(c) Pain
(d) Baptism

Short Answer Questions

1. About Mary: "....her womb, remaining fallow as the primordial abyss, summons to itself...the original power that fertilized the _______."

2. 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.

3. The goal is an ultimate reunion between physical and _________ worlds.

4. Who is shown a vision of the infinite all-powerful Krishna?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize "Out of the Void - Space."

2. What occurs in "Freedom to Live"?

3. Describe the content of "Childhood of the Human Hero."

4. Campbell goes into detail about the relationship between what two things?

5. What does the "Shape-shifter" point out?

6. Why can't myths be compared directly to dreams?

7. What does Campbell suggest every individual member of the human race has a responsibility to do?

8. How is the freedom won from the malice of the monster symbolized as?

9. Summarize "Transformations of the Hero" and "The Primordial Hero and the Human."

10. What does Campbell say happens when the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science?

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