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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?
(a) Ignore the past and move on.
(b) Talk to the people in our past.
(c) Mourn the past and move on.
(d) Climb into a time machine and go back.

2. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Two steps back.
(c) Regression.
(d) Escapism.

3. Chapter 5 states that even an average mother is perceived by a child as _____________.
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Better than average.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Stern.

4. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?
(a) Same-sex parents.
(b) Normal parents.
(c) Degenerate parents.
(d) Adoptive parents.

5. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?
(a) A grain of spite.
(b) A grain of hatred.
(c) A grain of insecurity.
(d) A grain of jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 3 addresses how the "Private I" is the person who lives underneath the facade that is created in order to ___________ those around them.

2. According to Chapter 6, is sibling rivalry normal and universal?

3. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."

4. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?

5. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?

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