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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 18-21 years old.
(b) 13-18 years old.
(c) 7-10 years old.
(d) 3-5 years old.

2. 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) Identification.
(c) Sublimation.
(d) Replacementation.

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

4. What type of relationship reinforces our self-knowledge, widens our worldview, and supports our self-esteem?
(a) The parent-child relationship.
(b) A mentoring relationship.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Marriage.

5. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?
(a) We find a good job and experience success.
(b) We begin to view ourselves as an independent being over a lifetime.
(c) We backpack through Europe and discover ourselves.
(d) We move away to college and choose our own major.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cinderella Complex says that women are programmed for what?

2. Friends and intimate partners are considered what?

3. Even as adults, according to the author, we still view our mothers as what?

4. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?

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

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