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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was in love with Jason and thus helped him in his quest?
(a) Methusa
(b) Medea
(c) Trinia
(d) Hera

2. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.
(a) Immoral, ugly
(b) Right, positive
(c) Unjust, plain
(d) Just, attractive

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

4. Many contemporary religions are __________ manifestations of the same central figure system.
(a) Spirtual
(b) Incorrect
(c) Misguided
(d) Religious

5. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?
(a) The Monomyth
(b) The Power of Myth
(c) Myth and Society
(d) Myth and Dreams

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

7. Who saw the Goddess Artemis nude and was unrepentant?
(a) Eremis
(b) Acctron
(c) Actaeon
(d) Totalis

8. The Native American priest calls this central area the absolute ________ of the land beneath the sky.
(a) Balance
(b) Middle
(c) Equality
(d) Center

9. "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of ___________..."
(a) Stark reality
(b) Supernatural wonder
(c) Painful suffering
(d) Ethereal madness

10. How many types of journeys are available when the Hero decides to return?
(a) Four
(b) Three
(c) One
(d) Two

11. What is the goal of the Hero's journey?
(a) Union
(b) Commitment
(c) Peace
(d) To win

12. The division between the God of the Old Testament and the God in the New Testament further brings up the idea of __________.
(a) Religion
(b) Faith
(c) Duality
(d) Confusion

13. Who gently kissed an old crone and was rewarded for his efforts?
(a) Eochaid
(b) Eonid
(c) Rodina
(d) Tremulus

14. The encounter with the Father is a symbol of ________.
(a) Ritual
(b) Initiation
(c) Movement
(d) Growth

15. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?
(a) Joy
(b) Happiness
(c) Frustration
(d) Tragedy

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.

2. Who was turned into a flower for refusing the advances of Apollo?

3. "No longer can the Hero rest in _______ with the Goddess....for she has become the queen of sin."

4. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?

5. The Hero's journey begins by "descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual _________."

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