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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 2, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what are the Hero's first steps into the new world blocked?
(a) A Guardian
(b) Spiritual doubt
(c) A wall
(d) Obstacles

2. What does Campbell quote at length in this section?
(a) Scandanavian bedtime stories
(b) Kretilan verse
(c) Kalevala
(d) Kata Vata

3. What was the origin of the story about the warrior who achieved enlightenment, returned to the world, saw that humans weren't ready for what he had to teach, and then withdrew into the spiritual world?
(a) Arabic
(b) Indian
(c) French
(d) Hindu

4. Swallowing is a kind of death of the overwhelming sense of _______ or self that must be sacrificed if true enlightenment is to be achieved.
(a) Ego
(b) Image
(c) Identity
(d) Self-importance

5. In the section, "Rescue from _________," the Hero is unable or unwilling to leave the place to which he's journeyed.
(a) Without
(b) Peril
(c) Trouble
(d) Within

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the transforming medium?

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

3. In many Hero stories, the Hero decides __________ after his journey.

4. "The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the ____ of the known into the unknown."

5. Who was in love with Jason and thus helped him in his quest?

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