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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 torture ourselves.
(b) In an effort to assess how we performed.
(c) In an effort to correct them.
(d) In an effort to rehearse for the future.

2. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.
(a) Warmer.
(b) Frantic.
(c) Fonder.
(d) Colder.

3. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."
(a) Grief.
(b) Learning.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.

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

5. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?
(a) Over-protective parenting.
(b) Imaginative parenting.
(c) Uninvolved parenting.
(d) Strict parenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?

2. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

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

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

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

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