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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viorst's poem, "I bring the children one more glass of water," is about what?
(a) Sex not being so sexy anymore.
(b) A dream of helping children find clean water.
(c) Being an overworked mother.
(d) The anxieties of going to sleep as a child.

2. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That we go to college and experiment.
(b) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(c) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(d) That we should just stay with our parents.

3. According to Chapter 9, how do we eventually resolve the Oedipus complex?
(a) By becoming adults.
(b) Through our conscience.
(c) Through guilt.
(d) Through punishment and shame.

4. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?
(a) Absolute love.
(b) Living an idyllic life.
(c) Being our mother's favorite.
(d) Being best friends with our sibling.

5. Marvin and _______ experience great physical discomfort because of their unconscious guilt.
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Donna.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 14, parents suffer from the one of the following in a similar fashion to children.

2. Viorst quotes this book, written by Kathrin Perutz, in Chapter 13.

3. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?

4. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?

5. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."

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