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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Analyzing childhood experiences can lead to which result in a marriage?
(a) A partner having an affair.
(b) A deep-rooted fear of losing a child.
(c) A better understanding of relationship problems.
(d) A comparison to the happiness of their parents.

2. If a hurt partner remains committed to impossibly high standards, they most likely missed out on which childhood experience?
(a) Letting go and having fun.
(b) Bonding with their friends.
(c) Exploring new relationships.
(d) Spending time with their parents.

3. A bulleted list is provided in Chapter 9 describing which aspects of forgiveness?
(a) Those unique to each partner.
(b) Those integral to achieving full forgiveness.
(c) Those needed to heal a marriage.
(d) Those experienced by the hurt partner.

4. Behaviors that build trust are divided in the book into two categories based on which factor?
(a) Cost.
(b) Productivity.
(c) Ease.
(d) Effectiveness.

5. Forgiveness involves mental development and occurs in which timeframe?
(a) Immediately.
(b) When the affair ends.
(c) Quickly.
(d) As time goes on.

6. Children who did not express themselves growing up were often treated in which way by their parents?
(a) Told to sit down.
(b) Told to behave.
(c) Told to go to their room.
(d) Told to be quiet.

7. The majority of the blame for an affair belongs to whom?
(a) The hurt partner.
(b) The lover.
(c) The unfaithful partner.
(d) Both partners.

8. When does the hurt partner mistakenly believe that the unfaithful partner must accomplish their personal change?
(a) Before the marriage is reconciled.
(b) After the affair ends.
(c) Before the hurt partner changes.
(d) After the children know.

9. How should children connect with others?
(a) Cognitively.
(b) Mentally.
(c) Physically.
(d) Emotionally.

10. If forgiveness is offered too quickly, how can it affect the individual?
(a) It can affect their personal identity.
(b) It can deepen the pain of the affair.
(c) It can trigger childhood memories.
(d) It can damage their self-esteem.

11. If one of their parents was unfaithful, a person will most likely exhibit which behavior?
(a) Seek out a partner who will commit equally.
(b) Avoid an affair at all cost.
(c) Refuse to enter a relationship.
(d) Become an unfaithful partner in their marriage.

12. Couples often assume that sexual desire should be experienced in which way by each partner?
(a) With the same intensity.
(b) With the same duration.
(c) With the same frequency.
(d) With the same fantasies.

13. Developing realistic expectations of sex involves examining assumptions regarding which emotion?
(a) Desire.
(b) Passion.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

14. If the listener repeats the ideas back to the speaker, they are using which technique?
(a) Mirror.
(b) Crossover.
(c) Intimacy.
(d) Equality.

15. What is the process of assaulting a partner with verbal abuse?
(a) Rage.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blocks to change does the text address in chapter six?

2. What does the first part of chapter six focus on?

3. Intimate listening can be described as which skill?

4. Adults who lack self-discipline often did not have which childhood experience?

5. Chapter 9 concludes with a document that is meant to help a couple in which way?

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