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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?
(a) In an effort to correct them.
(b) In an effort to assess how we performed.
(c) In an effort to rehearse for the future.
(d) In an effort to torture ourselves.

2. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(b) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(c) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(d) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.

3. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?
(a) Ignore the past and move on.
(b) Talk to the people in our past.
(c) Mourn the past and move on.
(d) Climb into a time machine and go back.

4. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."
(a) Primarily sexual.
(b) Asexual.
(c) Bisexual.
(d) Homosexual.

5. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I love you because I need you.
(b) I need you because I love you.
(c) I am loved because I love.
(d) I hate you because I love you.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?

2. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."

3. What was the title of Delia Ephron's book about adolescent angst referenced in Chapter 10?

4. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?

5. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?

(see the answer key)

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