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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?
(a) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.
(b) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.
(c) Our desire to learn versus our desire to have fun.
(d) Our desire to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.

2. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Isolated, hopeless, angry.
(b) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(c) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(d) Jewish, urchin, institution.

3. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?
(a) Families do not discuss it until the children are grown.
(b) Families do not discuss it at all.
(c) Families discuss it frequently.
(d) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.

4. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A set of artist's paints.
(b) A dollhouse.
(c) A pair of roller skates.
(d) A bike.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?

3. Viorst feels that in adulthood we may seek out the wanted parent in an effort to do what?

4. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?

5. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?

(see the answer key)

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