Hero Test

1. Which of the following best describes the hero's journey?

• A hero begins in an unknown world and struggles alone against a great evil to reach his ordinary world again.
• A hero begins with an ordinary life, but is compelled to take a hero journey into the unknown. With help, the hero overcomes challenges and returns a changed person.
• A hero eagerly heads out to find a magical world and fight everything he sees so he can rule the world as a more powerful, wiser person.
• After becoming powerful and important, a hero misses his old life, so he returns to the unknown to be destroyed so he can come back as his old, ordinary self and return to his old ordinary life.

2. What causes a hero to begin his journey?

• a call to adventure
• an accident
• a mentor dies
• the crossing of a threshold

3. Which archetypal character does the hero meet before setting out on his journey?

• the shadow
• allies
• a trickster
• a mentor

4. Does a hero eagerly set out on his adventure?

• Yes, he's a hero! Bring on the monsters!
• No, he first refuses the call. Heroes are humble after all.
• No, he hides form the problem until a mentor makes him go.
• Yes, because he hates his ordinary life.

5. Does a hero eagerly set out on his adventure?

• Yes, he's a hero! Bring on the monsters!
• No, he first refuses the call. Heroes are humble after all.
• No, he hides form the problem until a mentor makes him go.
• Yes, because he hates his ordinary life.

6. In which stage of a hero's journey does he set off to an unknown world?

• The Approach
• The Return
• Crossing the Threshold
• The Call To Adventure

7. Which best describes what happens after a hero enters the unknown world on his journey?

• He gets scared and runs back home.
• He meets a pretty woman who is his destiny to marry. Then fights the big bad guy, marries, and goes back home.
• He explores the new world and meets allies who help him on his journey, challenges and tasks he must face and solve, and enemies that must be defeated.
• He meets friends who quickly help him find the Shadow and then fights it to the death on his own.

8. Which best describes what happens after the hero's final battle or test according the The Hero's Journey?

• He finds a bigger and badder enemy to fight to keep challenging himself again and again.
• He marries the princess and lives happily ever after.
• He becomes the master of the unknown and stays there as a new, more powerful person to rule and bring good to all of the people there.
• He is reborn as a changed person and returns to his ordinary world with the power to help and bring good to people.

9. What are the three parts of the Hero's Journey (in order)?

• The Departure, The Return, The Initiation
• The Departure, The Initiation, The Return
• The Initiation, The Departure, The Return

10. What movie did we watch before Christmas that closely followed the Hero's Journey?

• Harry Potter
• Troy
• Home Alone
• Despicable Me