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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 Christ's life and Christianity?
(a) He says that the church is an illegitimate heir to Christ's teachings
(b) He says that Christianity has allowed too many other ideas to enter in, and Christ's teachings have been dliuted.
(c) He says that Christianity has not proceeded from Christ's teachings.
(d) He says that the church has corrupted Christ's teachings.

2. How does Jung describe the arts' and science's impact on the mysteries of creation?
(a) They are distractions.
(b) They are surrogates.
(c) They are emergent and transformative.
(d) They embody the truths of the mysteries.

3. What additional quality did Jung notice about whites after spending time with the primitive people of North America?
(a) Their untrustworthiness.
(b) Their rationality.
(c) Their irrationality.
(d) Their destructiveness.

4. What does the Kabala draw correlations between?
(a) Points in the sky and migration paths.
(b) Points in geography and historical events.
(c) Points in the Bible and qualities of temperament.
(d) Points on the body and essential qualities in the universe.

5. What does Jung see in Hindu culture's ideas about an afterlife?
(a) They refuse to believe in the resurrection of the soul.
(b) They have superstitions about rebirth.
(c) They believe in eternal reoccurence.
(d) They take reincarnation for granted.

6. How does Jung say moral judgments are made?
(a) He says they are often misjudgments.
(b) He says they are often intuitively correct.
(c) He says they originate in the collective unconscious.
(d) He says they are usually true to the unconscious of the judge.

7. What did Jung realize while he was recovering from his condition?
(a) That his affairs were not in order, and he could not die.
(b) That he was mortal.
(c) That the immortal part of him was not prepared for immortality.
(d) That his doctor was going to die.

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

9. How does Jung convey the depth and truth of his experiences in travel?
(a) By narrating the stories of his travels.
(b) By sharing images and feelings.
(c) By describing the places he saw.
(d) By explaining what the places meant to him.

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

11. Where does Jung suspect that thoughts about life after death come from?
(a) His religious training.
(b) His fantasies.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) His reading.

12. What does the Kabalistic concept of Malkuth correspond to?
(a) The earth; the feet.
(b) All ten sephiroth.
(c) The realm of beauty and love; the heart.
(d) The union of opposite qualities.

13. How does Jung say science can evaluate the idea of life after death?
(a) He says there is no good way.
(b) He says that data from resuscitated people is reliable enough to paint a good picture.
(c) He says that experiments are being developed.
(d) He says it will rely on developments in quantum physics.

14. What condition did Jung suffer in 1944?
(a) A surgery.
(b) A tumor.
(c) A stroke.
(d) A heart attack.

15. How does Jung approach the question of an afterlife?
(a) He says it could be dropped for lack of evidence, but that the question should still be entertained.
(b) He says that knowing about an afterlife would be catastrophic for mankind.
(c) He says that without evidence, it is merely a self-reflective exercise to consider it.
(d) He says that with work in quantum physics and paranormal psychology, an answer should be clear soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?

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

3. What aspect of moral judgments does Jung discuss?

4. What does Jung say makes it impossible for him to answer the question of an afterlife?

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

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