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

2. Death is the opportunity for ______ with the Unmoved Mover.
(a) Resting
(b) Re-union
(c) Living
(d) Peace

3. On which ritual from Christianity does Campbell focus his efforts?
(a) Reconciliation
(b) Eucharist
(c) Baptism
(d) Confirmation

4. What includes specific references, that Campbell quotes, to the human body becoming one with the parts of the gods?
(a) Torah
(b) Bible
(c) Koran
(d) Book of the Dead

5. Before emergence, spirit was all _______.
(a) An illusion
(b) The same
(c) One
(d) Beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. Dreams have a direct relationship with the individual experience of the ___________.

2. Who is the transforming medium?

3. What does this section "The Keys" summarize?

4. The _______ exists in the conscious; the conscious opens itself to the sub-conscious.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Campbell stress about the idea of symbols?

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

4. Summarize "The Virgin Birth - Mother Universe."

5. Summarize "The Matrix of Destiny."

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

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

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

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

10. Summarize "Within Space - Life."

(see the answer keys)

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