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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jung's mental state when he started working?
(a) He was afraid that he was mentally ill himself.
(b) He was sometimes depressed.
(c) He was surprised at how normal he felt.
(d) He felt divided and uncertain of his unity as a self.

2. What were the options for mentally ill people in Jung's day?
(a) Asylums and sanitariums.
(b) Prisons or sanitariums.
(c) Research hospitals and asylums.
(d) A wide spectrum of outpatient options.

3. What does the mind contain, in Jung's view?
(a) Closets filled with knick-knacks and historical oddities.
(b) Everything it has experienced, hidden and visible.
(c) The sum of its sensory input.
(d) Racial memories as well as individual experiences.

4. What did Jung come to think about Freud's theories?
(a) That Freud had jumped to conclusions that his research did not bear out.
(b) That Freud was fudging his research in order to build his career as a writer.
(c) That Freud incorporated too many other influences into his therapeutic approach.
(d) That Freud gave too much prominence to sexuality.

5. What were Nietzsche's adherents like in Jung's experience?
(a) There were crowds of worshipful followers.
(b) He knew two followers who were both homosexual.
(c) No one followed Nietzsche's thoughts.
(d) There were only a handful of people who took Nietzsche seriously.

6. What was Jung afraid of as a child?
(a) Men in black frocks.
(b) His father.
(c) Men in large groups.
(d) Protestants.

7. How old was Jung when his parents had his baby sister?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

8. What kind of man was Jung when he met Freud?
(a) A prodigy.
(b) An undistinguished clinician.
(c) A natural man.
(d) A mannered gentleman.

9. How did Jung's beliefs about God affect his thinking?
(a) It made Jung feel like a hypocrite, since he didn't believe what he was saying in church.
(b) Jung felt deeply guilty and afraid of damnation.
(c) Jung tried to stop thinking certain things for fear of blasphemy.
(d) Jung fostered his disbelief in private, and prepared to run away from his family.

10. Who encouraged Jung to take a new subject in his writing?
(a) Jung's wife.
(b) Jung's inner voices.
(c) Freud.
(d) Otto Rank.

11. What does Jung say he was entirely ignorant about in his childhood experience?
(a) The family's poverty.
(b) The family's wealth.
(c) The family's shameful history.
(d) The family's reputation.

12. What did Jung begin to write about as his career developed?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) Incest.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Sexuality.

13. What was the subject of Jung's thesis at university?
(a) Magic in literature.
(b) Paranormal activities and mediums.
(c) Sexual trauma in childhood.
(d) Alkaloids and heart health.

14. What was the second revolutionary psychiatric practice that Freud instituted?
(a) Involve patients' families in their therapy.
(b) Stronger anti-psychotic medications.
(c) Accept that sexuality is related to mental health.
(d) Remove the mentally ill from society.

15. Jung claims that the unconscious is the source of what?
(a) Desires.
(b) Consious activity and behavior.
(c) Lusts.
(d) Fantasies and daydreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the case in which Jung experienced a breakthrough?

2. What was Jung's father's profession?

3. What did Jung find as he applied his new approach to other cases?

4. What did Jung say that he thought had pushed Nietzsche over the brink into insanity?

5. How was Freud's work viewed in academic circles when Jung met him?

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