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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sigmund Freud once said, "When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ______________?"
(a) Old or young.
(b) Smart or stupid.
(c) Crazy or sane.
(d) Male or female.

2. Who said, "To be a man, a woman, an adult, is to accept responsibility"?
(a) Victor Hugo
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(d) Jean Valjean

3. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?
(a) "Shifting personality."
(b) "Borderline personality."
(c) "Chameleon personality."
(d) "As-if personality."

4. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?
(a) Judith Viorst.
(b) Colleen Rodman.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Colette Dowling.

5. Henry David Thoreau's little isolated cabin was how far from his mother's house?
(a) One mile.
(b) One state away.
(c) Ten miles.
(d) One day on a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?

2. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?

3. Chapter 3 addresses how the "Private I" is the person who lives underneath the facade that is created in order to ___________ those around them.

4. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?

5. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?

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