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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jung lament about Europeans, as a result of his travels?
(a) Their industrial violence.
(b) Their consolidation into masses.
(c) Their loss of nature.
(d) Their unnatural desires.

2. Whose company did Jung enjoy during his African travels?
(a) A Muslim guide.
(b) A Japanese traveler.
(c) A native guide.
(d) A European woman.

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

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

5. What does Jung describe of the Buddhist perspective on the afterlife?
(a) They believe in eternal reoccurence.
(b) They have pagan superstitions about an afterlife.
(c) They believe in purification through reincarnation.
(d) They do not believe in an afterlife.

6. What could Jung not have access to in North Africa?
(a) The realm of women.
(b) The private places where men retired.
(c) The markets.
(d) The churches.

7. What distinguishes alchemy from standard science?
(a) Alchemy has a spiritual component.
(b) Science has elements of social usefulness.
(c) Science is grounded in understanding the nature of things.
(d) Alchemy is the study of chemicals and their properties.

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

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

10. How did Jung say the primitive people of North America kept their culture alive?
(a) By constant adaptation.
(b) By sacrificing captives.
(c) By repetition of tradition.
(d) By perpetual innovation.

11. When Jung discusses the towers he added to his house, what is he careful to say they are not?
(a) Communal spaces.
(b) Solitary places.
(c) Open spaces for the family.
(d) Places for family members to be punished or banished.

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

13. 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 the closest solution to the problems of good and evil that arise.
(c) It is staying closest to the ancient wisdom of the myths and fables.
(d) It is the outcome of a certain number of trials and experiences.

14. What did Jung realize as a result of his experience of his condition?
(a) His fundamental human frailty.
(b) His eternal reoccurence.
(c) His uniqueness in the world.
(d) His physician's archetypal nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jung's relationship with his father like at the time when Jung was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?

2. How old were Jung's children when he built his house?

3. When was the Kabala devised?

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

5. What did Jung find noteworthy about his travels to Africa?

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