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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More sex.
(b) More fears.
(c) More dreams.
(d) More people.

2. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?
(a) Breast envy.
(b) Creative envy.
(c) Womb envy.
(d) Motherhood envy.

3. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."
(a) Life.
(b) Love.
(c) Learning.
(d) Grief.

4. According to Chapter 9, what feeling could be fear of the loss of our own love?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Shame.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Guilt.

5. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?
(a) Our fear of authority.
(b) The Oedipus complex.
(c) Our fear of abandoment.
(d) The inadequate feelings of childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

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

3. According to Chapter 8, what does modern science say that all mammals start out as?

4. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?

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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