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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson addresses Harold's anxieties and hatred about women in a simple way. He ______ a relationship with a woman who teaches him.
(a) Initiates.
(b) Asks about.
(c) Follows.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

2. The transition from being a child into being an adult involves ______ of the relational patterns between family members.
(a) Rearrangement.
(b) Removal.
(c) Dismissal.
(d) Manipulation.

3. Often enough, if the woman did not have a good experience with what from the beginning would she seek an annulment of the marriage?
(a) With sex.
(b) With respect.
(c) With romance.
(d) With children.

4. The cases in Chapter 5 typically include whom in the couple?
(a) The children.
(b) Both parties.
(c) The husband.
(d) The wife.

5. In most of the examples referred to in Chapter 3, success in dating leads not only into marriage, but also into ____.
(a) Divorce.
(b) Career.
(c) Parenting.
(d) Life.

6. Eventually, through a lengthy process including both success and failure, Erickson gets Harold to complete what?
(a) Trade school.
(b) High school.
(c) Military enrollment.
(d) Grade school.

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

8. Harold would finally happen into a heterosexual relationship with whom?
(a) The woman Erickson introduced him to.
(b) An older woman neighbor.
(c) His sister's friend.
(d) His best friend.

9. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "The Use of Space and Position".

10. Under which heading of Chapter 1 is it stated that Erickson emphasized both the autonomy and togetherness of family members?
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Awakening and Disengagement".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

11. Where additional education is needed, Erickson recommends it; for instance, _________ can educate girls whose mothers or other older women did not properly train in make up or fashion.
(a) Professional beauty assistants.
(b) Therapists.
(c) Aunts or cousins.
(d) Sisters and cousins.

12. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.
(a) Homosexual.
(b) Child.
(c) Adolescent.
(d) Adult.

13. The amnesia seems to be for the purpose of helping the clients themselves to be able to feel as if he has not done what?
(a) Invaded them.
(b) Discovered their childhoods.
(c) Spoken to their relatives.
(d) Spoken to them.

14. In one example in Chapter 3, a client's intense fear is eventually overcome by Erickson's encouragement and relating to the patient's _____.
(a) Weaknesses.
(b) Strengths.
(c) Fears.
(d) Anxiety.

15. The first heading of Chapter 1 is titled _____________; wherein, the individual in therapy is re-educated to view resistance as a form of cooperation in its own right.
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Providing a Worse Alternative".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.

3. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.

4. In a nonviolent case, Erickson often encourages _____ within a couple.

5. Which heading in Chapter 1 is shown to help work out residual resistance to desirable changes?

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