USE THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATION FOR THIS QUES-LECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS O...

12. Use the process of elimination for this ques-lective unconscious of all human kind. He likenstion. Choices aand dare in direct opposition tothe returning hero to the sacred or tabooed person-the other ideas expressed in the passage. Choiceage described by James Frazier in The Golden Bough.Such an individual must, in many instances of myth,c is not related to the overall message of thepassage and is contrary to the writer’s purpose.be insulated from the rest of society, “not merely forThe answer is b. Even though the author doesn’this own sake but for the sake of others; for since thedirectly say this, it can be inferred from the firstvirtue of holiness is, so to say, a powerful explosivesentence of the passage: “Recycling goods giveswhich the smallest touch can detonate, it is necessarycommunities the opportunity to lower theirin the interest of the general safety to keep it withinwaste output, reduce disposal costs, and mostnarrow bounds.”importantly, combat global environmentalThere is much similarity between the arche-typal hero who has journeyed into the wildernessproblems.” Another hint is the phrase “it alsosaves trees.”and the poet who has journeyed into the realm ofimagination. Both places are dangerous and full ofwonders, and both, at their deepest level, are jour-

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neys that take place into the kingdom of the uncon-scious mind, a place that, in Campbell’s words, “goesAnother type of question on the THEA has to do withdown into unsuspected Aladdin caves. There notwords in context. You will have to look for clues toonly jewels but dangerous jinn abide . . .”

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