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

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

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

4. What happened to Jung's doctor while Jung was convalescing?
(a) He died.
(b) He moved away.
(c) He and his wife had their first baby.
(d) He lost all his money.

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

6. 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 without evidence, it is merely a self-reflective exercise to consider it.
(c) He says that knowing about an afterlife would be catastrophic for mankind.
(d) He says that with work in quantum physics and paranormal psychology, an answer should be clear soon.

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

8. What does Jung say scientists have to confront?
(a) The misapplication of their theories.
(b) The stigma of being evil.
(c) The excessive adulation of the masses.
(d) The distortion of their ideas in the marketplace.

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

10. What warning does Jung give the reader in his discussion of life after death?
(a) He only knows what he himself has seen.
(b) He knows what he knows from an unreliable source.
(c) He has no wish to raise false hopes.
(d) He learned about life after death primarily from books.

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

12. What crafts is alchemy close to, in its practice?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Farming.
(d) Glass blowing.

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

14. What was Jung's experience of his condition?
(a) He had hallucinatory experiences.
(b) He transcended time and space.
(c) He had a near-death experience.
(d) He had an out-of-body experience.

15. What idea did Jung and Hegel both write about?
(a) That a spirit drives history toward a conclusion.
(b) That transcendent experiences of God are possible.
(c) That human history is a progression.
(d) That there is an oversoul in the universe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Jung's friendship with Freud end?

3. What does Jung say about the mysteries of creation?

4. What does Jung say distinguishes Christ's story from other cultures' stories of resurrected gods?

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

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