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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Rivalry.
(d) Anger.

2. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?
(a) Great anxiety.
(b) Higher achievements.
(c) Spontaneous smiling.
(d) Warm, fuzzy feelings.

3. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?
(a) Projection.
(b) Entanglement of self.
(c) Yours and mine syndrome.
(d) Confusion.

4. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
(a) Deceit.
(b) Pride.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hatred.

5. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?
(a) Our religious upbringing.
(b) The messages media convey.
(c) Libidinal conflicts.
(d) Oedipal conflicts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

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

3. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.

4. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?

5. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?

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