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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 300.
(b) 50.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 982.

2. Which book referenced in Chapter 14 references the "good mother"?
(a) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(c) The Mother Knot by Jane Lazarre
(d) The World According to Garp by John Irving

3. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?
(a) The Oedipus complex.
(b) The Oracle complex.
(c) The Electra complex.
(d) The Odysseus complex.

4. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?
(a) The Catcher in the Rye.
(b) Confederacy of Dunces.
(c) The Men's Club.
(d) The Moviegoer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After fantasizing about her mother having a fatal heart attack, a woman drove up to her mother's apartment building to find what?

2. According to Viorst, the different roles we assign ourselves keep life interesting and fluid, rather than _____________.

3. Even as adults, according to the author, we still view our mothers as what?

4. Why does Viorst say we "need the controls provided by guilt"?

5. According to Viorst, in middle age we inspire far less ________ than we do ___________.

(see the answer key)

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