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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Revisiting the past.
(b) Bad habits.
(c) Familiarity complex.
(d) Repetition compulsion.

2. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.
(a) Fonder.
(b) Colder.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Warmer.

3. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?
(a) Absolute love.
(b) Being our mother's favorite.
(c) Being best friends with our sibling.
(d) Living an idyllic life.

4. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More fears.
(b) More dreams.
(c) More sex.
(d) More people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

2. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

3. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?

4. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

5. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?

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