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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. How did Jung describe his vision of his dead wife?

2. How was Jung's house influenced by primitives?

3. Where did Jung build his house?

4. What does Jung ultimately say about the question of an afterlife?

5. When was Jung recovering from the death of his wife; a time during which he added on a tower to his house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jung say about moral judgments?

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

3. What was Jung's relationship with Hegel's philosophy?

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

5. What two influences did Jung begin to see life in terms of after his wife's death?

6. Where does Jung say the idea of the afterlife comes from?

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

8. How does the idea of the afterlife affect Jung's epistemology?

9. How did Jung feel about the cultures he traveled through?

10. Where does Jung say giants come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jung attributes some degree of eternality to his childhood experiences, and he theorizes the collective unconscious as a wellspring of human experience. What role is left for the individual to play? Is the daimon the figure who determines the individual's fate, or is it the individual who chooses his or her fate?

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

Describe Jung's decision to study medicine. What parts of his childhood led him to this decision? What parts of his childhood was he turning away from in this decision?

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