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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 his affairs were not in order, and he could not die.
(d) That the immortal part of him was not prepared for immortality.

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

5. What does Jung say about Christ's life and Christianity?
(a) He says that Christianity has allowed too many other ideas to enter in, and Christ's teachings have been dliuted.
(b) He says that Christianity has not proceeded from Christ's teachings.
(c) He says that the church has corrupted Christ's teachings.
(d) He says that the church is an illegitimate heir to Christ's teachings

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central symbol of alchemy?

2. What does Jung say distinguishes Christ's story from other cultures' stories of resurrected gods?

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

4. What does Jung describe of the Buddhist perspective on the afterlife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jung confront his father's thinking as he grew older?

2. What was the state of alchemy when Jung began to study it?

3. Where did Jung travel to in order to research his philosophy of psychology?

4. How did Jung respond to his wife's death?

5. What is Jung's feeling about the Christian church?

6. How do the Hindu or Buddhist ideas of reincarnation affect Jung?

7. What parts of the Kabala affected Jung?

8. What was Jung's feeling about his wife's death?

9. What does Jung say about his relationship with his wife and children?

10. Describe the revelations Jung had during his near-death experience.

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