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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 Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?
(a) We find a good job and experience success.
(b) We begin to view ourselves as an independent being over a lifetime.
(c) We move away to college and choose our own major.
(d) We backpack through Europe and discover ourselves.

2. According to Chapter 6, is sibling rivalry normal and universal?
(a) Only in the United States.
(b) Ten out of ten psychoanalysts answer yes.
(c) Only in industrialized nations.
(d) It depends on the parenting style.

3. According to Viorst, what is one of our first treasures that we don't want to share?
(a) Our special blanket.
(b) Our father's love.
(c) Our mother's milk.
(d) Our mother's love.

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

5. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.
(a) Fonder.
(b) Colder.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Warmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?

2. According to the author, what do babies need?

3. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

4. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?

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

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