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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What effect did Jung's blasphemous dream have on him?
(a) It made him feel sacrilegious.
(b) It made him feel impious glee.
(c) It made him feel fear.
(d) It made him feel like an outcast.

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

4. Who did Jung consult with about his feelings about God and religion?
(a) His parents.
(b) His priest.
(c) Books by philosophers and writers.
(d) His teachers.

5. How was mental health practiced when Jung entered it?
(a) It was closer to running a prison.
(b) It was outside of science.
(c) It was in an obscure boundary-land between science and crime.
(d) It was at the heart of scientific debates about psychology.

6. How did Jung attempt to approach God?
(a) Through books.
(b) In his feelings.
(c) Through church rituals.
(d) Through piety toward his parents.

7. Why were patients allowed to leave the asylum?
(a) They agreed to return at the first sign of abnormal behavior or feelings.
(b) Their families were convinced to take them back.
(c) They felt better after time away from the stresses that brought on their illness.
(d) The asylum could not keep them beyond a certain time.

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

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 fostered his disbelief in private, and prepared to run away from his family.
(d) Jung tried to stop thinking certain things for fear of blasphemy.

10. What childhood memory inspired Jung in the new direction his work was taking?
(a) Playing with his dog.
(b) Playing with friends.
(c) Playing on the beach.
(d) Playing with blocks.

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

12. How did Jung see Freud once they met?
(a) They treated each other as rivals.
(b) He treated him as a father.
(c) They treated each other as equals.
(d) They kept each other at a distance, but they collaborated.

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

14. Where did Jung feel closest to God?
(a) In church.
(b) In school.
(c) At home.
(d) In nature.

15. What was Jung's family's religion?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Protestant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jung say his psychology originates?

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

3. What terrifying experience was Jung marked by from his childhood?

4. What were Nietzsche's adherents like in Jung's experience?

5. What did Jung expect for his career and maturity?

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