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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."
(a) Ingrid Bergman
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Harriet Lerner
(d) Erich Fromm

2. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?
(a) In an effort to assess how we performed.
(b) In an effort to torture ourselves.
(c) In an effort to correct them.
(d) In an effort to rehearse for the future.

3. 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) "Chameleon personality."
(b) "Borderline personality."
(c) "Shifting personality."
(d) "As-if personality."

4. 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) Fear of abandonment.
(d) Insecurity about themselves.

5. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 18-21 years old.
(b) 7-10 years old.
(c) 13-18 years old.
(d) 3-5 years old.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?

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. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?

5. Intimate male-female relationships are rare because of what?

(see the answer key)

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