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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Pain of Old Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.
(a) "Communicate between the parents".
(b) "Communicate with siblings".
(c) "Facilitate domination".
(d) "Facilitate the family unit".

2. A fear of women that had been troubling Erickson's client in Chapter 3 was overcome but Erickson never even discussed that fear with this client, as the problem was solved through his what?
(a) Quitting smoking.
(b) Indirect approach.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Direct approach.

3. Erickson's use of intentional forms of amnesia as part of the trance is done in order to _________ and to empower individuals to make certain changes.
(a) Alleviate the distress of patients.
(b) Distress the patients.
(c) Make massive changes.
(d) Record their hidden secrets.

4. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?
(a) Content.
(b) Happy.
(c) Strangled.
(d) Unnatural.

5. In one scenario in Chapter 5, Erickson was ignorant in matters of baby gender prediction, but he did recommend _____ to avert disaster.
(a) Medication.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Institutionalization.
(d) Separation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes that the majority of the young adults who the therapist meets with do want to ____.

2. One extreme example of dependency in Chapter 8 is when a young woman goes off to college and her parents build an addition to the house so she can live there while she is an adult, including when?

3. Eventually, through a lengthy process including both success and failure, Erickson gets Harold to complete what?

4. The first example Haley gives in Chapter 9 involves a man with an intense fear of what?

5. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?

(see the answer key)

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