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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what was Richard Steele referring in the following quote? "... the compleatest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
(a) Family.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Death.
(d) Marriage.

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) Two steps back.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Escapism.
(d) Regression.

3. Henry David Thoreau's little isolated cabin was how far from his mother's house?
(a) One state away.
(b) One day on a horse.
(c) One mile.
(d) Ten miles.

4. According to Viorst, in middle age we inspire far less ________ than we do ___________.
(a) Hatred; love.
(b) Respect; pity.
(c) Lust; respect.
(d) Admiration; annoyance.

5. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?
(a) 50.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 300.
(d) 982.

Short Answer Questions

1. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

2. As our parents grow old, get sick, and die, we learn to do what in relation to imperfect connections?

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

4. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

5. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.

(see the answer key)

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