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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?
(a) Projection.
(b) Yours and mine syndrome.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Entanglement of self.

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

3. According to Viorst, what is one of our first treasures that we don't want to share?
(a) Our father's love.
(b) Our mother's milk.
(c) Our special blanket.
(d) Our mother's love.

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

5. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?
(a) Subluxation.
(b) Replacementation.
(c) Identification.
(d) Sublimation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?

2. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?

3. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?

4. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?

5. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?

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