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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had Jung and his wife been married when she died?
(a) Twenty-nine years.
(b) Thirty-four years.
(c) Fifty-three years.
(d) Fifteen years.

2. How many additions did Jung make to his house?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

4. How old were Jung's children when he built his house?
(a) Still young.
(b) Mostly infants.
(c) Entering adulthood.
(d) In grade school.

5. What does Jung say makes it impossible for him to answer the question of an afterlife?
(a) He is biased by his experience of paranormal activities.
(b) He cannot always trust his senses.
(c) All his experience is from being alive.
(d) He does not know people who have returned from death.

6. How common is the belief in an afterlife, in Jung's estimation?
(a) It depends on the culture.
(b) The belief is more common in the West.
(c) Almost everyone believes in an afterlife.
(d) Most people believe in an afterlife.

7. 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.

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

9. What did the primitive people of North America get Jung to see about white people?
(a) Their violence.
(b) Their scientific minds.
(c) Their predatory nature.
(d) Their faith in abstractions like money and God.

10. What was the purpose of the rituals Jung witnessed?
(a) To convince the deer and other game to return.
(b) To convince the sun to return.
(c) To convince the rain to fall.
(d) To convince the corn to grow.

11. What does Jung say is at the heart of his house?
(a) The communal kitchen.
(b) The masculine fireplace.
(c) The maternal hearth.
(d) The rational study.

12. Where did Jung build his house?
(a) Bollingen.
(b) The Krater.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Berne.

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

14. What aspect of moral judgments does Jung discuss?
(a) Their origins in the unconscious.
(b) Their superstitious qualities.
(c) Their psychological effects.
(d) Their intuitive truthfulness.

15. What does Jung say constitutes the greatest self-knowledge?
(a) It is the result of reading and studying the holiest scriptures of a number of cultures.
(b) It is staying closest to the ancient wisdom of the myths and fables.
(c) It is the outcome of a certain number of trials and experiences.
(d) It is the closest solution to the problems of good and evil that arise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jung describe the arts' and science's impact on the mysteries of creation?

2. How does Jung say science can evaluate the idea of life after death?

3. What does the Kabala draw correlations between?

4. When Jung discusses the towers he added to his house, what is he careful to say they are not?

5. What does Jung say he believes about life after death?

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