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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. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that bright, sensitive girls are more at risk for problems?
(a) They are exposed to more anti-female writings
(b) Women are too highly sexualized
(c) They do not see enough realistic female role models
(d) They are aware of the conflicting forces in their lives

2. What is the overshadowing problem concerning Franchesca?
(a) Adoption
(b) Lack of parental affect
(c) Sexual promiscuity
(d) Drugs and alcohol

3. Who or what does Pipher hold responsible for the split between child and adult during adolescence?
(a) Culture
(b) Parents
(c) Males
(d) Hormones

4. From which category are many daughters raised who are more apt to like men?
(a) Reluctant
(b) Supportive
(c) Abusive
(d) Distant

5. How does Dr. Pipher define imaginary audience syndrome?
(a) Acting as if you are on a stage all the time
(b) Instead of living, acting as if you are performing life
(c) Emotional over-reactions to situations
(d) Thinking people are always scrutinizing your every move

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it difficult to reason with young girls?

2. Which of the following finishes the following conflicting messages: Girls should be independent but _____________.

3. How does Dr. Pipher describe surface structure?

4. Which of the following best describes how girls perceive distant fathers as compared to mothers?

5. Which of the following best describes how Dr. Pipher feels about Western civilization and mothers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do girls perceive distant fathers according to Dr. Pipher?

2. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that adolescents are most impacted by divorce?

3. What generalization does Dr. Pipher make for the girls who come to therapy before they reach adolescence?

4. What does Dr. Pipher believe is the root cause of the split that occurs in early childhood?

5. Describe Miller's definition of vibrancy and provide an example of how it can be overcome?

6. What happens as adolescent girls withdraw from their parents and what does this offer to the girls?

7. Why does Dr. Pipher describe adolescent girls as female impersonators?

8. How do teenagers view their parents' divorces and what happens to the authority of the parents after a divorce?

9. What concerns Dr. Pipher most about divorce and why is she concerned about this issue?

10. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that young girls are particularly difficult to develop theories about in regard to treatment?

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