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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Mock.
(b) Scare away.
(c) Protect.
(d) Please.

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

5. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?
(a) Our desire to learn versus our desire to have fun.
(b) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.
(c) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.
(d) Our desire to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?

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

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

4. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?

5. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.

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