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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?
(a) Talk to the people in our past.
(b) Mourn the past and move on.
(c) Climb into a time machine and go back.
(d) Ignore the past and move on.

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

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

4. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Familiarity complex.
(b) Repetition compulsion.
(c) Bad habits.
(d) Revisiting the past.

5. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?
(a) New beginning.
(b) Original loss.
(c) First separation.
(d) Launch of independence.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?

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