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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Rivalry.

2. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?
(a) Their needs are different than their mother's.
(b) Their needs are less than their mother's.
(c) Their needs are greater than their mother's.
(d) Their needs are the same as their mother's.

3. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(b) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(c) Isolated, hopeless, angry.
(d) Jewish, urchin, institution.

4. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?
(a) Through imitation of our friends.
(b) By belonging to a wide variety of social groups.
(c) Through experimentation with different character traits.
(d) Through imitation of our parents.

5. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(b) To give up our need for control.
(c) To give up the many identities we try out.
(d) To give up on being one with our mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

2. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?

3. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

4. De-identification can help siblings feel superior in different ways, but it can also lead to what negative result?

5. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?

(see the answer key)

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