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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?
(a) The Oracle complex.
(b) The Odysseus complex.
(c) The Electra complex.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

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

3. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?
(a) Degenerate parents.
(b) Adoptive parents.
(c) Same-sex parents.
(d) Normal parents.

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

5. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(b) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.
(c) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(d) Fit in and find acceptance with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 3 addresses how the "Private I" is the person who lives underneath the facade that is created in order to ___________ those around them.

2. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?

3. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

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

5. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.

(see the answer key)

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