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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the primitive people of North America get Jung to see about white people?
(a) Their faith in abstractions like money and God.
(b) Their predatory nature.
(c) Their violence.
(d) Their scientific minds.

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

3. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?
(a) That the restrictions he placed on himself were no longer necessary.
(b) That he felt no diminution from the losses.
(c) That the desire that led him into a family did not require other things of him.
(d) That he had not needed his family as much as he thought.

4. What did Jung realize while he was recovering from his condition?
(a) That his doctor was going to die.
(b) That he was mortal.
(c) That the immortal part of him was not prepared for immortality.
(d) That his affairs were not in order, and he could not die.

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

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

7. When did Jung begin to build a house for himself?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1929.

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

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

10. How at home was Jung in North Africa?
(a) He knew his way around and understood the local language and customs.
(b) He did not understand the language.
(c) He was familiar with the culture.
(d) He was completely unfamiliar with the culture.

11. What did Jung realize as a result of his experience of his condition?
(a) His physician's archetypal nature.
(b) His eternal reoccurence.
(c) His fundamental human frailty.
(d) His uniqueness in the world.

12. When was Jung recovering from the death of his wife; a time during which he added on a tower to his house?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1950s.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What holy book inspired a set of visions after Jung recovered from his condition?

3. What does Jung use to try to answer the question of the afterlife?

4. Why was Jung drawn to alchemy?

5. What does the Kabala draw correlations between?

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