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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Pain of Old Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author does not mention the issue of whether to ______ when he mentions the matter of marriage.
(a) Parent.
(b) Live separately.
(c) Accept homosexuality.
(d) Divorce.

2. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her infidelity.
(c) Her spending.
(d) The gender of their baby.

3. In some cases, Erickson offers patients the option to make more complete changes in a shorter time span. In these cases, he assures them that they can, but the greater the transformation, the greater the _________ associated with the changes that will be facilitated by hypnosis.
(a) Psychological shock.
(b) Composure.
(c) Rehabilitation.
(d) Resentment.

4. Haley explains that Erickson, in dealing with ______, does not attempt to change their fundamental nature and does not even try to confront the real problem directly.
(a) Grandparents.
(b) Parents.
(c) Children.
(d) Adolescents.

5. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?
(a) Borderline personality disorder.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which heading of Chapter 1 does it state that therapy now helps patients make changes without any focus on understanding why the previous behavior had existed?

2. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that therapy must take into account the reality of how factors outside the marriage and beyond the individual partners have an affect upon what happens and may contain suggestions and warnings about the way to navigate a set of solutions?

3. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.

4. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?

5. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?

(see the answer key)

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