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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. About how many children does Dr. Pipher indicate come from, or spend a part of, their childhood in a single parent home?
(a) Seven Eighths
(b) Half
(c) Three fourths
(d) One fourth

2. What percentage of families fits the traditional dynamic according to Pipher?
(a) 5%
(b) 32%
(c) 14%
(d) 21%

3. Which of the following is not an example of surface structure?
(a) Awkwardness
(b) Internal struggle to find oneself
(c) Energy
(d) Moodiness

4. Which type of parents have teens who are impulsive, irresponsible and dependent?
(a) Indulgent low in control and high in acceptance parents
(b) Authoritarian high in control and low in acceptance parents
(c) Authoritarian low in control and high in acceptance parents
(d) Indulgent high in control and low in acceptance parents

5. What does Dr. Pipher indicate that most teens are not mature enough to understand?
(a) Parents involved in divorce are suffering too
(b) Parents involved in divorce still love them
(c) Parents involved in divorce are happier and have less pressure
(d) Parents involved in divorce are not punishing the teens

Short Answer Questions

1. How much more likely are boys to speak up in class than girls?

2. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that Jessica continues to rebel even more?

3. What do many teens do after a divorce?

4. Which of the following descriptors can be used to describe the emotions of an adolescent girl?

5. What contradiction does Pipher describe in relation to what parents share with their children?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Pipher explain the difference between surface structure of behaviors and the deep structure of meaning?

2. Describe the contradictions that occur between the expectations between the father and mother according to Dr. Pipher.

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

4. What does Dr. Pipher indicate is the problem as it relates to young girls with fairy tales?

5. What is dysfunctional, according to Dr. Pipher, and what does this mean for parents?

6. Describe the double standard that Dr. Pipher describes as related to the expectations that Americans have?

7. Describe young girls' emotional systems and how this can affect them?

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

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

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

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