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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mind contain, in Jung's view?
(a) The sum of its sensory input.
(b) Racial memories as well as individual experiences.
(c) Closets filled with knick-knacks and historical oddities.
(d) Everything it has experienced, hidden and visible.

2. What did Jung's father's dislike for Jesuits probably stem from?
(a) Centuries of Catholic persecution.
(b) A Jesuit had killed his father.
(c) The Catholic/Protestant divide.
(d) Jesuit treatment of Natives in North America.

3. What was Jung's family's religion?
(a) Calvinist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Protestant.

4. What was the second revolutionary psychiatric practice that Freud instituted?
(a) Involve patients' families in their therapy.
(b) Stronger anti-psychotic medications.
(c) Remove the mentally ill from society.
(d) Accept that sexuality is related to mental health.

5. How did writing this book change Jung's life?
(a) He became more objective about it.
(b) He recalled things he had forgotten entirely.
(c) He came to terms with his dislike for his father.
(d) He purged memories that had been making him sick.

6. What was the first revolutionary psychiatric practice that Freud instituted?
(a) Stronger anti-psychotic medications.
(b) Patients were involved in their therapy.
(c) Accept that madness is part of everyday life.
(d) Remove the mentally ill from society.

7. What does Jung say he realized held the greatest meaning for him as he grew older?
(a) His publications and his reputation.
(b) His inner life and inner vision.
(c) His wife and family.
(d) His relationship with Freud.

8. What was Jung's family like by the time he met Freud?
(a) He was married with five children.
(b) He was married with one child.
(c) He was unmarried.
(d) He was divorced with two children.

9. What kind of formative event shaped Jung?
(a) A financial question that made him thrifty.
(b) An ethical question that made him suspicious.
(c) A religious question that made him secretive.
(d) A familial question that made him proud.

10. What was Jung afraid of as a child?
(a) Protestants.
(b) His father.
(c) Men in large groups.
(d) Men in black frocks.

11. What did Jung begin to write about as his career developed?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Incest.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Fantasies.

12. What does Jung say he was entirely ignorant about in his childhood experience?
(a) The family's reputation.
(b) The family's shameful history.
(c) The family's poverty.
(d) The family's wealth.

13. What events did Jung attend regularly for two years after the life-changing event?
(a) Church services.
(b) Pagan rituals.
(c) Magic shows.
(d) Table tappings.

14. What gave Jung confidence to align himself with Freud?
(a) His reputation as a fighter.
(b) His disdain for the bourgeoisie.
(c) His desire for Freud's renown.
(d) His disagreements with the administration of the hospital.

15. How did Jung feel about religious practice as a child?
(a) He found it painfully beautiful.
(b) He found it offensive and ridiculous.
(c) He found it a little too convincing.
(d) He found it hollow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jung refer to his autobiography while it was being written?

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

3. What did Jung feel like he was exploring in his new, more playful work?

4. Why were patients allowed to leave the asylum?

5. How did Jung encounter Freud?

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