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

2. The spouse of the mother universe is the ____________.
(a) Hero
(b) The writer of stories
(c) The seeker of myths
(d) Invisible unknown.

3. What is the purpose of baptism, at least on its surface?
(a) Create a fresh start
(b) Help the church recognize that person
(c) Wash away original sin
(d) Bring person into the church

4. When a civilization begins to reinterpret its mythology...the ________ goes out of it.
(a) Purpose
(b) Life
(c) Intention
(d) Meaning

5. What is the experience of the outer world in relation to the psychological interpretation of the answer to #140?
(a) Interactive reasoning
(b) Conscious dreaming
(c) Waking experience
(d) Sleep

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The place of the Hero's ____....is the mid-point or navel of the world.

3. What is the second effect of the cosmogonic emanations of universal power?

4. What kind of element is the water of the ritual in #125?

5. Who destroyed the civilizations of the race that had conquered his own?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize "The Universal Round."

2. What is the "universal round"?

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

4. What are some of the symbols Campbell points out in the Christian sacrament of baptism?

5. What occurs in "Freedom to Live"?

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

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

8. What is the end of the life in the universe portrayed as in this section?

9. What does Campbell do in "The Keys"?

10. Summarize "The Crossing of the Return Threshold."

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