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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mind contain, in Jung's view?
(a) Everything it has experienced, hidden and visible.
(b) The sum of its sensory input.
(c) Closets filled with knick-knacks and historical oddities.
(d) Racial memories as well as individual experiences.

2. 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.

3. What result does Jung's blasphemous dream have?
(a) He begins to lie about his faith.
(b) He forces himself to continue religious practice.
(c) He ponders religion seriously.
(d) He flees from the church and never returned.

4. How did Jung pay for school?
(a) His parents paid to keep him there.
(b) He worked.
(c) He was fully funded by the university.
(d) He got partial funding from the university.

5. What does Jung say he realized held the greatest meaning for him as he grew older?
(a) His wife and family.
(b) His publications and his reputation.
(c) His relationship with Freud.
(d) His inner life and inner vision.

6. How did Jung's work progress from the time he met Freud?
(a) It opened greater and greater professional prospects for him.
(b) He began to write creative pieces, poems and plays, based on his experiences.
(c) It fizzled to an end and needed renewal.
(d) He began to be guided by spiritual-sounding voices.

7. Where was Jung's first posting?
(a) In a research hospital.
(b) In a mental hospital.
(c) In a battlefield hospital.
(d) In a local clinic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What was Jung's father's profession?
(a) Engraver.
(b) Lecturer.
(c) Linguist.
(d) Minister.

15. How did Jung feel about religious rituals as a child?
(a) He couldn't convince himself to go through the motions.
(b) He found them ineffective.
(c) He repeated them with deep feeling.
(d) He repeated them obsessively.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jung raised?

2. What was Nietzsche's reputation in Basel?

3. What was Jung's family like by the time he met Freud?

4. How did the other students at university perceive Jung?

5. What did Jung consider doing with Freud's work?

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