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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. Which adjective best describes how Dr. Pipher believes divorce affects the lives of children?
(a) It shatters lives
(b) It surprises them
(c) It does not affect them
(d) It relieves problems

2. What does Myra do to her parents?
(a) She physically attacks them
(b) She drinks and does drugs with them
(c) She rebels against them
(d) She ran away from home

3. How does Pipher define authenticity?
(a) Owning all experiences
(b) Disowning all experiences
(c) Owning all experiences that are not traumatic
(d) Owning all experiences that are socially acceptable

4. How does Dr. Pipher describe surface structure?
(a) What others can see
(b) Root cause of behavior
(c) Camouflage behavior
(d) Internal struggles

5. Which of the following is the best definition for the term androgynous?
(a) Post-pubescent
(b) Neither masculine nor feminine
(c) Pre-pubescent
(d) Stereotypically developing

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives best describes the relationship between Whitney and Evelyn?

2. What concerns Dr. Pipher about many of the children of divorce?

3. Which of the following is not a descriptor of a healthy adult according to Broverman's study?

4. What does Dr. Pipher compare girls of divorce to?

5. What do the dreams of being paralyzed or being stuck in quicksand represent according to Pipher?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the second dimension and the two extremes which make it up as described by Pipher?

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

5. Describe why Pete is concerned about his relationship with his daughter and what Dr. Pipher does about this relationship.

6. What are some of the conflicting messages that adolescent girls are faced with?

7. What contradiction does Dr. Pipher describe between who gets credit for raising a strong daughter and who is more typically responsible?

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

9. In what ways does Pipher compare families of the 1990s with those in previous years of history?

10. What seems to be the underlying issue between Jessica and her mother?

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