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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) Smart or stupid.
(b) Male or female.
(c) Crazy or sane.
(d) Old or young.

2. During the age of latency, fear, anger, and harsh conscience make it difficult to do what?
(a) Develop into our own person.
(b) Make the break from our parents.
(c) Maintain a good relationship with our parents.
(d) Concentrate on school.

3. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up on being one with our mother.
(b) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(c) To give up the many identities we try out.
(d) To give up our need for control.

4. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?
(a) Creative envy.
(b) Motherhood envy.
(c) Womb envy.
(d) Breast envy.

5. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?
(a) By belonging to a wide variety of social groups.
(b) Through imitation of our parents.
(c) Through imitation of our friends.
(d) Through experimentation with different character traits.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, is sibling rivalry normal and universal?

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

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

4. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?

5. In this book, mentioned in Chapter 12, it is stated that despite sexual feelings toward friends of the same sex, individuals need not necessarily define themselves as "homosexual." What is the name of the book?

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