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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said, "To be a man, a woman, an adult, is to accept responsibility"?
(a) Jean Valjean
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(d) Victor Hugo

3. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?
(a) Adoptive parents.
(b) Normal parents.
(c) Degenerate parents.
(d) Same-sex parents.

4. According to Viorst, which two abilities at which boys excel are the only ones based in scientific fact?
(a) Aggression and visual spatial ability.
(b) Verbal and scientific.
(c) Sports and hunting.
(d) Math and science.

5. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(b) That we should just stay with our parents.
(c) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(d) That we go to college and experiment.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?

4. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?

5. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe repetition compulsion and what we may be trying to accomplish through it.

2. Why is Chapter 1 entitled, "The High Cost of Separation"?

3. According to Viorst, why is it okay to have fantasies that are inappropriate if they aren't acted upon?

4. According to psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler, what is our "psychological birth" ?

5. Why do psychologists think the "Mommy and I Are One" experiments worked?

6. Rather than be trapped in mourning for what we did not get as children, what does the author propose we do?

7. Why did Freud name it the Oedipus complex?

8. Why does J.D. Salinger's character from The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, not want to grow up?

9. What did Alfred Adler note about the relationship between siblings and how it influences who we become as adults?

10. Why do children experience sibling rivalry?

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