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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 13, there can be no human love without what?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Fear.
(c) A caring parental relationship.
(d) Passion and romance.

2. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?
(a) An intimate and joyful day on a private beach in Fiji.
(b) A beautiful spring day spent in a field of wildflowers.
(c) An exquisite French dessert, delicious, but hard to create.
(d) A great rosy-plumaged bird soaring in the splendors of poetic skies.

3. Which of the following, according to the author, may be an inappropriate way to deal with the grieving of childhood?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Sex.
(c) Breaking the rules.
(d) Driving recklessly.

4. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?
(a) "Shifting personality."
(b) "As-if personality."
(c) "Chameleon personality."
(d) "Borderline personality."

5. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Ingrid Bergman
(c) Harriet Lerner
(d) Erich Fromm

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, the author discusses another "necessary loss." Which one is it?

2. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?

3. Why does Viorst think some people fear success?

4. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?

5. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

(see the answer key)

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