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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jung follow in his father's footsteps at university?
(a) He was nearly expelled.
(b) He was first in his class.
(c) He drank and gambled.
(d) He joined a fraternity.

2. Carl Gustav Jung shared his name with whom?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) A former German Emperor.
(c) His great-grandfather.
(d) His father.

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 profession did Jung's uncles work in?
(a) They were engravers.
(b) They were ministers.
(c) They were parsons.
(d) They were bookkeepers.

5. What field did Jung settle upon in university?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Law.
(c) Business.
(d) Economics.

6. What resulted from Jung's new, more playful direction?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Visions.
(c) Play therapy.
(d) Freedom from guilt.

7. What happened to give Jung a new perspective on his choice of field?
(a) Death in the family.
(b) Religious conversion.
(c) Paranormal activities.
(d) His house was burgled.

8. What did Jung say that he thought had pushed Nietzsche over the brink into insanity?
(a) That Nietzsche had inherited insanity from his parents.
(b) That Nietzsche was too close with his sister.
(c) That Nietzsche did not have enough external life outside his work.
(d) That Nietzsche had not worked in a close enough community.

9. What kind of formative event shaped Jung?
(a) An ethical question that made him suspicious.
(b) A religious question that made him secretive.
(c) A financial question that made him thrifty.
(d) A familial question that made him proud.

10. How often did Carl Jung and Aniela Jaffe spend time together gathering materials for Jung's autobiography?
(a) A few hours each day.
(b) A few hours each week.
(c) A few hours a month.
(d) A few weekends a year.

11. What did Jung's new direction suggest he had to do next?
(a) Divorce his wife.
(b) Explore the unconscious in detail.
(c) Explore his sexual fantasies.
(d) Get to know his family's stories.

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

13. What was the first revolutionary psychiatric practice that Freud instituted?
(a) Accept that madness is part of everyday life.
(b) Stronger anti-psychotic medications.
(c) Remove the mentally ill from society.
(d) Patients were involved in their therapy.

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

15. What did Jung's father's dislike for Jesuits probably stem from?
(a) The Catholic/Protestant divide.
(b) Jesuit treatment of Natives in North America.
(c) Centuries of Catholic persecution.
(d) A Jesuit had killed his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Jung when his parents had his baby sister?

2. How did Jung's beliefs about God affect his thinking?

3. What did Jung come to think about Freud's theories?

4. What was Jung's family's status?

5. What kinds of conversations were standard fare in Jung's childhood household?

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