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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?
(a) Increase.
(b) Diminish.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Intensify.

2. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?
(a) Self-annihilation.
(b) Hatred of oneself.
(c) Self-preservation.
(d) Physical injury.

3. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?
(a) Subluxation.
(b) Sublimation.
(c) Identification.
(d) Replacementation.

4. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."
(a) Homer.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Orion.
(d) Odysseus.

5. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?
(a) Proving we are competent individuals.
(b) Vying for our father's affection.
(c) Learning to accept and love ourselves.
(d) Seeking the unconditional love of our mother's arms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

3. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?

4. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?

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

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