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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Scare away.
(b) Mock.
(c) Protect.
(d) Please.

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

3. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His nurse.

4. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
(a) Pride.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Deceit.

5. According to the author, what do babies need?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Mothers.
(c) A consistent caregiver.
(d) Fathers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?

3. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

4. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?

5. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?

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