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

2. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I hate you because I love you.
(b) I am loved because I love.
(c) I need you because I love you.
(d) I love you because I need you.

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

4. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?
(a) They shun perfect and evil people alike, looking for complete mediocrity in the perfect mate.
(b) They compare everyone they meet to their mothers.
(c) They form a very close relationship with their fathers.
(d) They split from relationships their whole life because they think in terms of black and white.

5. When does it become clear to the child that his needs are different than his mother's?
(a) When puberty occurs.
(b) When adolescence occurs.
(c) When the mother tells the child, "No!" for the first time.
(d) When separation occurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?

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?

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

4. 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?

5. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

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