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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.
(b) We grow amazingly strong wings.
(c) We crash to the ground.
(d) We scream, or cry, or get angry.

2. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?
(a) Original loss.
(b) New beginning.
(c) First separation.
(d) Launch of independence.

3. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I need you because I love you.
(b) I hate you because I love you.
(c) I am loved because I love.
(d) I love you because I need you.

4. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?
(a) 5 years old.
(b) 20 years old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 40 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

2. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?

3. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?

4. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

5. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?

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