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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) A separate self.
(b) A narcissist.
(c) A well-adjusted adult.
(d) Someone who makes our mother proud.

2. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Alfred Adler.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Lev Vygotsky.

3. "Our conscience is our _____________ installed in our mind."
(a) Collective consciousness.
(b) Religion.
(c) Society.
(d) Parents.

4. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A bike.
(b) A set of artist's paints.
(c) A dollhouse.
(d) A pair of roller skates.

5. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?
(a) Seeking the unconditional love of our mother's arms.
(b) Vying for our father's affection.
(c) Learning to accept and love ourselves.
(d) Proving we are competent individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does it become clear to the child that his needs are different than his mother's?

2. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

3. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?

4. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.

5. Chapter 11 discusses our what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Excessive punishment of ourselves rests on the illusion of what?

2. How does the author propose that some men compensate for their envy of a woman's ability to have children?

3. Why do we have fantasies?

4. Despite a constant desire for independence, why do young children keep coming back to their mothers?

5. According to Freud, what is the age of latency?

6. Why did Art Buchwald, journalist and friend of the author, say that he understands about "scars on the brain"?

7. The term "penis envy" can sound quite ridiculous, but Viorst points out that it takes on many metaphorical meanings. What are some of those possible symbolic meanings?

8. According to psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler, what is our "psychological birth" ?

9. Describe repetition compulsion and what we may be trying to accomplish through it.

10. Endocrinologist Estelle Ramey uses what example to support her theory that virtually all differences between male and female are cultural?

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