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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the actual event that changed Jung's perspective on his studies?
(a) He saw his father's face in a mirror.
(b) His mother heard God's voice.
(c) A knife and table split.
(d) Lightning entered the dining room, touched all the silverware, and exited.

3. What did Jung find as he applied his new approach to other cases?
(a) Each case was unique.
(b) What worked for one patient was hardly ever useful with another.
(c) Most patients responded to the same change in treatment.
(d) He had to fight the administration of the hospital.

4. How did Jung encounter Freud?
(a) They were introduced through colleagues.
(b) Freud approached Jung's published work.
(c) Jung approached Freud's published work.
(d) Jung worked in a clinic with Freud.

5. What was Freud's position in his field when Jung met him?
(a) He was a pioneer.
(b) He was accepted as a revolutionary thinker.
(c) He was an outcast from psychiatric circles.
(d) He was surrounded by scandals.

6. How did the other students at university perceive Jung?
(a) He was normal.
(b) He was silly and inconsequential.
(c) He was too religious.
(d) He was sacrilegious.

7. What did Jung feel when his parents brought home a baby sister?
(a) Competitive urges.
(b) Disinterested disappointment.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Ownership of the baby.

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

9. 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.

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

11. How was abnormal psychology seen in Jung's time?
(a) As scientifically worthless.
(b) As nearer the occult than science.
(c) As a punishment for wayward psychologists.
(d) As legitimate science.

12. How did Jung refer to his autobiography while it was being written?
(a) As "My story".
(b) As "My Red Book".
(c) As "My gospel".
(d) As "Aniela's project".

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

14. What was Jung's experience at university?
(a) He blossomed.
(b) He rebelled against his family by drinking and gambling.
(c) He shrunk from his studies.
(d) He isolated himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gave Jung confidence to align himself with Freud?

2. What was Jung's family's religion?

3. What was Jung's mental state when he started working?

4. What does Jung say he realized held the greatest meaning for him as he grew older?

5. What kind of man was Jung when he met Freud?

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