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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viorst contends that our unconscious sexual thoughts toward friends are masked as what?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Flirtatious behavior.
(c) Ridicule and anger.
(d) Concern, devotion, and affection.

2. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.
(a) Physical.
(b) Math.
(c) Mothering.
(d) Verbal.

3. The Cinderella Complex says that women are programmed for what?
(a) Helplessness.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Being a maid.
(d) Dependency.

4. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We scream, or cry, or get angry.
(b) We crash to the ground.
(c) We grow amazingly strong wings.
(d) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.

5. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Rivalry.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?

2. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?

3. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

4. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

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

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