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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 11 discusses our what?
(a) Perception of reality.
(b) Parents' expectations.
(c) Sleeping patterns.
(d) Fantasies.

2. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Rivalry.

3. Who wrote the book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
(a) Judy Blume
(b) J.K. Rowling
(c) Beverly Cleary
(d) Madeleine L'Engle

4. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?
(a) 20 years old.
(b) 40 years old.
(c) 5 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

5. What are we often unaware of that we bring with us into a marriage?
(a) Perfect love.
(b) The unfinished business of childhood.
(c) Our parent's relationship.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which famous author wrote this about the loss of his cherished wife: "The first plunge of the knife into the flesh is felt again and again"?

4. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?

5. There are what number of friendships that Viorst labels in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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