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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 characteristics of the physical world are ultimately a kind of ___________.
(a) Clothing
(b) Disguise
(c) Power
(d) Illusion

2. About Mary: "....her womb, remaining fallow as the primordial abyss, summons to itself...the original power that fertilized the _______."
(a) Space
(b) Void
(c) World
(d) Human race

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Campbell attempt to show relates within mythology?

2. Who is the transforming medium?

3. When myths are reinterpreted from older times to modern times, the link between the perspectives is ___________.

4. The spouse of the mother universe is the ____________.

5. Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography...it is ________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Over time, what has happened to core myths, according to Campbell?

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

5. What is death portrayed as, according to Campbell?

6. What occurs in "The Master of the Two Worlds"?

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

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

9. What is the "universal round"?

10. Summarize "The Matrix of Destiny."

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