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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?
(a) Being our mother's favorite.
(b) Being best friends with our sibling.
(c) Absolute love.
(d) Living an idyllic life.

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

3. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) A separate self.
(b) A narcissist.
(c) Someone who makes our mother proud.
(d) A well-adjusted adult.

4. Freud said that every dream contains what?
(a) Truth.
(b) A cat.
(c) A wish.
(d) Pain.

5. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?
(a) Intensify.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Diminish.
(d) Increase.

6. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It is formed in our mind.
(b) It comes from our DNA.
(c) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(d) It comes from the messages around us.

7. Viorst feels that in adulthood we may seek out the wanted parent in an effort to do what?
(a) Put an end to the inappropriate feelings once and for all.
(b) Win the battle over the other parent.
(c) Work through the feelings of childhood.
(d) Make the other parent jealous.

8. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."
(a) Learning.
(b) Grief.
(c) Love.
(d) Life.

9. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?
(a) A grain of spite.
(b) A grain of hatred.
(c) A grain of jealousy.
(d) A grain of insecurity.

10. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?
(a) Peter Pan.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) Robin Hood.
(d) Saint George.

11. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 13-18 years old.
(b) 7-10 years old.
(c) 3-5 years old.
(d) 18-21 years old.

12. When we allow some person or group to stand in place of our own conscience, this leads to what?
(a) Indiscriminate guilt.
(b) Unconscious guilt.
(c) Dependent guilt.
(d) Deficient guilt.

13. As adults, we are able to see ourselves as in control, not as ___________.
(a) Aggressors.
(b) Children.
(c) Victims.
(d) Mental patients.

14. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
(a) Many.
(b) Flimsy.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Few.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."

3. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?

4. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?

5. 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?

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