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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?
(a) "Shifting personality."
(b) "As-if personality."
(c) "Borderline personality."
(d) "Chameleon personality."

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

3. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(b) Jewish, urchin, institution.
(c) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(d) Isolated, hopeless, angry.

4. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?
(a) An ability to forgive others.
(b) A mature understanding of self.
(c) Two grown adults.
(d) The separation of self from the other.

5. 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 Electra complex.
(c) The Oedipus complex.
(d) The Odysseus complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?

2. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in 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. Chapter 5 states that even an average mother is perceived by a child as _____________.

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

(see the answer key)

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