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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What distinguishes alchemy from standard science?
(a) Alchemy is the study of chemicals and their properties.
(b) Science is grounded in understanding the nature of things.
(c) Alchemy has a spiritual component.
(d) Science has elements of social usefulness.

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

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

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

7. What did Jung see in one of his prominent visions when he was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?
(a) A red stone.
(b) A mandala.
(c) A gold and green cross.
(d) Ancient symbols.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does this central symbol of alchemy contain?
(a) An unsolved riddle.
(b) A warning against misusing alchemy.
(c) A set of signs and symbols.
(d) A recipe for gold.

14. How did Jung describe his vision of his dead wife?
(a) As a holographic portrait.
(b) As her spectral emanation.
(c) As a stress-induced hallucination.
(d) As a living presence.

15. What aspect of moral judgments does Jung discuss?
(a) Their psychological effects.
(b) Their origins in the unconscious.
(c) Their intuitive truthfulness.
(d) Their superstitious qualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Jung's doctor while Jung was convalescing?

2. What idea did Jung and Hegel both write about?

3. What has the science of alchemy produced?

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

5. What could Jung not have access to in North Africa?

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