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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age do we develop the superego?

2. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

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

4. 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?

5. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do children experience sibling rivalry?

2. Why were Hansel and Gretel so close to each other relationally?

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

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

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

6. According to Freud, what is the age of latency?

7. Viorst lists many things that healthy adults know. Name two.

8. Why do we have fantasies?

9. What support does Viorst give to the Cinderella Complex?

10. Who first discovered the Oedipus complex? How did he/she describe it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using support from the book, discuss whether the differences between males and females are innate or cultural.

Essay Topic 2

Viorst describes various types of guilt throughout Chapter 9. Describe what they are, how they differ, and whether each one serves to help us or negatively impact us.

Essay Topic 3

What important steps in human development take place at middle age? Discuss how we continue to define who we are through this process.

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