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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How was Jung's thesis received?
(a) It was accepted.
(b) It was derided.
(c) It was praised highly.
(d) It was rejected.

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

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

9. How did Jung feel about his mother?
(a) He thought she was bright but limited.
(b) He thought she wanted a different life for herself.
(c) He thought she was unintelligent and superstitious.
(d) He thought she did not love him or his father.

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

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

12. 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) Travels and exploration before he settled down.
(d) A lifetime of intellectual exploration and travel.

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

14. What was Jung's family like by the time he met Freud?
(a) He was married with five children.
(b) He was married with one child.
(c) He was divorced with two children.
(d) He was unmarried.

15. What terrifying experience was Jung marked by from his childhood?
(a) His father's poverty and bankrupcty.
(b) Rescuing his father from their burning house.
(c) Running away from a Jesuit.
(d) Stealing pears from an orchard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the options for mentally ill people in Jung's day?

2. How did Jung see Freud once they met?

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

4. What significance does the red stone have for Jung?

5. What was the subject of Jung's thesis at university?

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