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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tends to happen when the Hero initially refuses the call?
(a) They never do
(b) They are lost forever
(c) Imprisonment
(d) Nothing

2. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?
(a) Common man
(b) Buddha
(c) David
(d) Jesus

3. What joins at this central area as described in #28?
(a) Every animal
(b) All the colors of the wind
(c) Four directions
(d) Four winds

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) Image
(b) Identity
(c) Ego
(d) Self-importance

5. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?
(a) Dragons
(b) His family
(c) Evil
(d) His faith

Short Answer Questions

1. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.

2. What is NOT a symbol of this central item, as referenced in #25 and #26?

3. What is this transcendent source worthy of, according to Campbell?

4. Who was trapped psychologically in fearful reaction to the world around him?

5. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?

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