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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."
(a) Primarily sexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Bisexual.
(d) Asexual.

2. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Piaget and Spock.
(b) Freud and Erikson.
(c) Skinner and Sullivan.
(d) Jung and Adler.

3. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(b) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(c) That we go to college and experiment.
(d) That we should just stay with our parents.

4. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More people.
(b) More dreams.
(c) More fears.
(d) More sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret Mead points out that we have labeled the Oedipal issue as a _______________.

2. Which famous author wrote this about the loss of his cherished wife: "The first plunge of the knife into the flesh is felt again and again"?

3. Why does Viorst think some people fear success?

4. What is it called when someone keeps everything just the same after someone dies?

5. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

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