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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After fantasizing about her mother having a fatal heart attack, a woman drove up to her mother's apartment building to find what?
(a) A fire and fire truck.
(b) Everyone having a block party.
(c) Her mother's upstairs neighbor being loaded into an ambulance.
(d) Her mother being loaded into an ambulance.

2. In Chapter 16, Viorst quotes which psychologist who wrote the book Loss?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) John Bowlby.
(c) Erich Fromm.
(d) Jean Piaget.

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

4. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(b) It comes from our DNA.
(c) It is formed in our mind.
(d) It comes from the messages around us.

5. Which famous author's daughter suddenly died at the age of 24?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the anecdote about the holy man painting a portrait for a king, who ends up being revealed in the painting?

3. According to the book, the conscious daydreams that drift through our minds bring hints to us of what kind of world?

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

5. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?

(see the answer key)

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