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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 flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?
(a) Truth
(b) Understanding
(c) Peace
(d) Beauty

2. After the first threshold, what immediately happens to the Hero?
(a) He goes home.
(b) He becomes reborn.
(c) He is swallowed.
(d) He ends his journey.

3. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."
(a) Fighting
(b) Stealing
(c) Re-attainment
(d) Remembering

4. Who is the half human/half bull child of an enchanted queen?
(a) Roman peasant
(b) Greek slave
(c) Cretan minotaur
(d) Babylonian prince

5. 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) Self-importance
(c) Ego
(d) Identity

Short Answer Questions

1. Who agrees to come to the rescue of the princess?

2. What is the princess initially playing with in the fairy tale?

3. What does the Hero have to do when he returns from his journey?

4. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?

5. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?

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