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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why was Jung drawn to alchemy?
(a) He thought he had found a recipe for turning lead into gold.
(b) He thought it would make him rich.
(c) He wanted to turn his patients into artists.
(d) He saw it as a metaphor for spiritual transformation.

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

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

6. 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 learned about life after death primarily from books.
(c) He has no wish to raise false hopes.
(d) He knows what he knows from an unreliable source.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was Jung's relationship with his father like at the time when Jung was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?
(a) His father fought with him for dominance in the family.
(b) His father was losing his superiority and yielding to Jung.
(c) His father's dominance in social and religious contexts was complete.
(d) His father was disgraced and discredited.

14. What state was Jung's father in when Jung was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?
(a) Insane.
(b) Healthy old age.
(c) Senile.
(d) Crippled.

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

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. What did Jung realize as a result of his experience of his condition?

3. How does Jung say moral judgments are made?

4. What does Jung see in Hindu culture's ideas about an afterlife?

5. What does Jung say about Christ's life and Christianity?

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