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

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

3. What does Jung say about Christian theology?
(a) It is often disingenuous.
(b) It reduces to a dualistic moral universe.
(c) It is the true path to compassion and self-knowledge.
(d) It does not simplify good and evil.

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

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

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

7. What additional quality did Jung notice about whites after spending time with the primitive people of North America?
(a) Their destructiveness.
(b) Their untrustworthiness.
(c) Their rationality.
(d) Their irrationality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?

2. What does Jung say he believes about life after death?

3. What does the Kabala draw correlations between?

4. How long had Jung and his wife been married when she died?

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

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