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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. To whom did the professor and the student go for help?
(a) Principal.
(b) Superintendent.
(c) Dean.
(d) Headmaster.

2. What does Erickson use as an example for a skill learned early in life?
(a) Motor skills.
(b) Crawling.
(c) Walking.
(d) Talking.

3. The target customer's animals were considered to be the man's ______.
(a) Pride and joy.
(b) Bane of existence.
(c) Cross to bear.
(d) Profitable future.

4. Erickson refers to an old adage that says, "It's just like ______."
(a) Sleeping like a baby.
(b) Riding a bike.
(c) Catching a mouse.
(d) Falling off a log.

5. Which of the following may help someone go into a self-induced state?
(a) A bright room.
(b) Discpline.
(c) Aromatherapy.
(d) Luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. The student was eventually congratulated for which of the following?

2. What is the opposite of being in a trance?

3. The woman in the story found her routine medical treatments to be:

4. Who was Erickson's target?

5. Rapport should not be mistaken for which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Arthur's offer to the professor and the dean? What was the result?

2. What is automatic behavior? How can it be used to help patients?

3. Is it possible to recover from a set of forgotten skills? What example is used?

4. What is Erickson's primary method of treatment? What tool is used to treat the patient? What is the purpose?

5. Erickson believes that it may not be necessary to solve an entire problem for the problem to be effectively relived. Explain this theory and to what cases it might best relate.

6. What is the crux and purpose of MY VOICE WILL GO WITH YOU by Sidney Rosen?

7. Erickson talks about forgotten skills. What does the doctor mean about forgotten skills? What was the example used?

8. What happened between Arthur and the professor? What was the conflict?

9. The author includes a large number of examples featuring patients who are unaware of what actions? What kinds of results might there be from these particular actions?

10. Erickson often received criticism for his methods of practice. Who gave out the criticism and what was the main complaint?

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