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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 11, we sometimes fear that our fantasies can do what?
(a) Have the power to control reality.
(b) Make us mean.
(c) Change us.
(d) Reveal the sick, depraved person we really are.

3. At what age do we develop the superego?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Five.

4. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?
(a) They compare everyone they meet to their mothers.
(b) They split from relationships their whole life because they think in terms of black and white.
(c) They form a very close relationship with their fathers.
(d) They shun perfect and evil people alike, looking for complete mediocrity in the perfect mate.

5. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?
(a) Our religious upbringing.
(b) The messages media convey.
(c) Libidinal conflicts.
(d) Oedipal conflicts.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?

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

3. Which of the following, according to the author, may be an inappropriate way to deal with the grieving of childhood?

4. To what was Richard Steele referring in the following quote? "... the compleatest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."

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

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