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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud said that every dream contains what?
(a) Pain.
(b) A cat.
(c) A wish.
(d) Truth.

2. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?
(a) Normal parents.
(b) Same-sex parents.
(c) Degenerate parents.
(d) Adoptive parents.

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

4. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?
(a) The Oedipus complex.
(b) The inadequate feelings of childhood.
(c) Our fear of authority.
(d) Our fear of abandoment.

5. In the example of a woman dreaming of a German Nazi officer, she is really associating with what?
(a) The police man who gave her a ticket earlier in the day.
(b) Her cruel boss demanding she work overtime.
(c) Her controlling husband forbidding her to go out.
(d) Her overbearing mother urging her to eat in Yiddish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form of internalization do we take on aspects of those we have loved?

2. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

3. In Chapter 16, Viorst quotes which psychologist who wrote the book Loss?

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

5. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

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