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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) Talk to the people in our past.
(b) Ignore the past and move on.
(c) Climb into a time machine and go back.
(d) Mourn the past and move on.

2. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We crash to the ground.
(b) We grow amazingly strong wings.
(c) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.
(d) We scream, or cry, or get angry.

3. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?
(a) They compare everyone they meet to their mothers.
(b) They shun perfect and evil people alike, looking for complete mediocrity in the perfect mate.
(c) They form a very close relationship with their fathers.
(d) They split from relationships their whole life because they think in terms of black and white.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret Mead points out that we have labeled the Oedipal issue as a _______________.

2. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?

3. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

4. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

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

(see the answer key)

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