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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jung say he remembers from his childhood?
(a) Almost everything that happened.
(b) Only a few key moments.
(c) Only scattered fragments of events.
(d) Not everything, only some things.

3. What did Jung think about God?
(a) He thought God was wrathful and harsh.
(b) He thought God existed and was both kind and terrible.
(c) He thought that God was just a character in fairy tales.
(d) He thought God was essentially love and goodness.

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

5. What significance does the red stone have for Jung?
(a) He had found it when he had had a revelation.
(b) He had used it to represent an altar.
(c) He had thought it spoke to him.
(d) He identified it with God.

6. What did Jung's experience show him about Freud's practices?
(a) They were useful.
(b) They were potentially dangerous.
(c) They could be applied successfully in limited cases.
(d) They were harmful.

7. What was Nietzsche's reputation in Basel?
(a) He was still unknown.
(b) He was revered.
(c) He was not always spoken well of.
(d) He was vilified.

8. What was Jung's primary interest?
(a) History.
(b) Administration.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Psychiatry.

9. What did Jung expect for his career and maturity?
(a) He planned to renounce worldly things and enter the church.
(b) One career and one wife.
(c) A lifetime of intellectual exploration and travel.
(d) Travels and exploration before he settled down.

10. Where was Jung raised?
(a) In France near the Swiss border.
(b) In England near the coast.
(c) In Switzerland near the German border.
(d) In Germany near the Dutch border.

11. 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 incorporated too many other influences into his therapeutic approach.
(c) That Freud was fudging his research in order to build his career as a writer.
(d) That Freud gave too much prominence to sexuality.

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

13. How did Jung feel about religious practice as a child?
(a) He found it painfully beautiful.
(b) He found it offensive and ridiculous.
(c) He found it hollow.
(d) He found it a little too convincing.

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

15. How was Freud's work viewed in academic circles when Jung met him?
(a) It was accepted in some places.
(b) It was heretical.
(c) It had become the new orthodoxy.
(d) It was controversial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung feel like he was exploring in his new, more playful work?

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

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

4. What dream of Jung's shows his feelings about religion?

5. What does Jung say he was entirely ignorant about in his childhood experience?

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