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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) His father fought with him for dominance in the family.
(b) His father's dominance in social and religious contexts was complete.
(c) His father was losing his superiority and yielding to Jung.
(d) His father was disgraced and discredited.

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

3. What holy book inspired a set of visions after Jung recovered from his condition?
(a) The Apocrypha.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Koran.
(d) The Kabala.

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

5. 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 embody the truths of the mysteries.
(d) They are emergent and transformative.

6. What does Jung say he believes about life after death?
(a) He is certain it's possible.
(b) He believes it can happen sometimes.
(c) He is opposed to the idea.
(d) He has seen too many things to rule it out.

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

8. 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.

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

10. When did Jung's friendship with Freud end?
(a) When Jung criticized Freud's relationship with his sister.
(b) When Jung published Wandlungen und Symbologie der Libido.
(c) When Freud exiled Jung from his circle.
(d) When Jung admitted other factors than sexual trauma into the analytic schema.

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

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

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

14. What does Jung say about Christ's life and Christianity?
(a) He says that Christianity has not proceeded from Christ's teachings.
(b) He says that the church has corrupted 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.

15. What was the design of the house meant to emphasize to the inhabitants?
(a) A cyclic view of life.
(b) A spirit of inclusion.
(c) His own presence at the house's circle's center.
(d) A connection to the earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Jung say about Christian theology?

4. What does Jung say is at the heart of his house?

5. Whose company did Jung enjoy during his African travels?

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