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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How long were the intervals between construction phases in Jung's house?
(a) Four years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three months.

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

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

7. What does Jung say about the Devil?
(a) He says that the Devil is real and he has seen him.
(b) He says that the Devil is as much a fiction as God.
(c) He describes the notion that the Devil made the world.
(d) He attributes creation to a war between gods and devils.

8. 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.

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

10. What does Jung use to try to answer the question of the afterlife?
(a) Dreams.
(b) His personal experience.
(c) Literature.
(d) Science fiction.

11. What does Jung ultimately say about the question of an afterlife?
(a) He says it does not interest him.
(b) He says it will never be answered.
(c) He says that it will always torment him.
(d) He says it is just an aspect of human life; mysterious.

12. When was the Kabala devised?
(a) In the middle ages.
(b) In the Renaissance.
(c) In ancient times.
(d) In Jung's time.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung begin to confront about his father when he was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?

2. How does Jung approach the question of an afterlife?

3. What additional quality did Jung notice about whites after spending time with the primitive people of North America?

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

5. How does Jung convey the depth and truth of his experiences in travel?

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