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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jung's father's profession?

2. What childhood memory inspired Jung in the new direction his work was taking?

3. What was the subject of Jung's thesis at university?

4. Why were patients allowed to leave the asylum?

5. How did Jung follow in his father's footsteps at university?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jung decide to back Freud's ideas?

2. What does Jung mean when he says that the mind claims and keeps all experiences?

3. How did Jung feel about religious practice as a child?

4. What were Jung's feelings about meeting Freud?

5. What was Jung's private life like while he was working with Freud?

6. Describe Jung's decision to study psychiatry.

7. How was Jung exposed to the concept of God as a child?

8. How did Jung harness his dreams and visions?

9. What was Jung's mental state at the time when he took his first job?

10. Where did Jung have his first early success?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Jung's views on religion. Is he still Western in his views of organized religion, by the end of his life, or has he adopted primitive views? Which religion does he endorse? Which religion does he practice?

Essay Topic 2

How does Jung know what he knows? Particularly in the discussion of the afterlife, he draws distinctions between what can be known and what cannot. What is the source of Jung's knowledge? What authorizes him to know what he knows?

Essay Topic 3

Jung treated and released a woman who had committed murder. Was this the right thing to do? How did this experience affect Jung--personally and as a therapist?

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