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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book referenced in Chapter 14 references the "good mother"?
(a) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(c) The World According to Garp by John Irving
(d) The Mother Knot by Jane Lazarre

2. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?
(a) The Catcher in the Rye.
(b) The Moviegoer.
(c) Confederacy of Dunces.
(d) The Men's Club.

3. According to Chapter 14, parents suffer from the one of the following in a similar fashion to children.
(a) Oedipus complex.
(b) Separation anxiety.
(c) Insecurity about themselves.
(d) Fear of abandonment.

4. The following headline ran in what paper? "HER OUTSIDE PREOCCUPATION CAN LEAVE HIM ISOLATED AT TIME OF MORE LEISURE"
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Washington Post.

5. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?
(a) An exquisite French dessert, delicious, but hard to create.
(b) An intimate and joyful day on a private beach in Fiji.
(c) A beautiful spring day spent in a field of wildflowers.
(d) A great rosy-plumaged bird soaring in the splendors of poetic skies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?

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

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

4. According to Otto Kernberg, adolescent romantic love is the normal, crucial beginning of what?

5. As our parents grow old, get sick, and die, we learn to do what in relation to imperfect connections?

(see the answer key)

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