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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jung say about ghosts?
(a) They are evidence of the desire for immortality.
(b) They are convincing evidence of an afterlife.
(c) They are projections of unconscious longings.
(d) They are not evidence of an afterlife.

2. Where does Jung say giants come from?
(a) The union of angels and mortals.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Literature.
(d) Fables and myths.

3. What does Jung say about the idea, expressed in Revelations, that time will end?
(a) That only developed cultures entertain this idea.
(b) That the idea exists in other cultures.
(c) That the book of Revelations should have been considered apocryphal.
(d) That the idea exists in the collective unconscious.

4. What did Jung experience in North America?
(a) Industrial culture.
(b) A godless middle-class.
(c) Primitive culture.
(d) Liberated women.

5. How was Jung's house influenced by primitives?
(a) He used only local materials.
(b) He built it round, with a tower.
(c) He built it open, around a courtyard.
(d) He built it to be temporary.

6. What is the "Krater"?
(a) A spritual site.
(b) A geographical feature.
(c) A mythic monster.
(d) A mixing bowl.

7. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?
(a) That he had not needed his family as much as he thought.
(b) That he felt no diminution from the losses.
(c) That the desire that led him into a family did not require other things of him.
(d) That the restrictions he placed on himself were no longer necessary.

8. What did Jung see in one of his prominent visions when he was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?
(a) Ancient symbols.
(b) A gold and green cross.
(c) A red stone.
(d) A mandala.

9. What is the central symbol of alchemy?
(a) An emerald tablet.
(b) The medicine wheel.
(c) A golden wheel.
(d) The wheel of fortune.

10. What does Jung say distinguishes Christ's story from other cultures' stories of resurrected gods?
(a) Nothing--all the elements exist in other cultures.
(b) Christ lived during a time when Messiahs were anticipated.
(c) Christ is treated as a Messiah, not a demi-god.
(d) Christ's gospel was written down.

11. How does Jung say colonization affected the African medicine men?
(a) It bolstered their position as the advocates of traditional religion.
(b) It undermined their authority to perform certain rituals.
(c) It expanded their healing powers with new medicine.
(d) It impaired their ability to dream.

12. What has the science of alchemy produced?
(a) Inconsequential explosions.
(b) Nothing useful.
(c) Gold.
(d) Useful results in other areas.

13. How did Jung describe his vision of his dead wife?
(a) As her spectral emanation.
(b) As a stress-induced hallucination.
(c) As a living presence.
(d) As a holographic portrait.

14. What was Jung's relationship with his father like at the time when Jung was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?
(a) His father fought with him for dominance in the family.
(b) His father was disgraced and discredited.
(c) His father was losing his superiority and yielding to Jung.
(d) His father's dominance in social and religious contexts was complete.

15. What does this central symbol of alchemy contain?
(a) A warning against misusing alchemy.
(b) A recipe for gold.
(c) A set of signs and symbols.
(d) An unsolved riddle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jung say constitutes the greatest self-knowledge?

2. What does the Kabalistic concept of Tiphareth correspond to?

3. What does the Kabalistic concept of Malkuth correspond to?

4. How at home was Jung in North Africa?

5. What idea did Jung and Hegel both write about?

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