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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?
(a) Warm, fuzzy feelings.
(b) Great anxiety.
(c) Spontaneous smiling.
(d) Higher achievements.

2. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) Someone who makes our mother proud.
(b) A well-adjusted adult.
(c) A separate self.
(d) A narcissist.

3. 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 to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.
(c) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.
(d) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.

4. 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.

5. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?
(a) Families discuss it frequently.
(b) Families do not discuss it until the children are grown.
(c) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.
(d) Families do not discuss it at all.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?

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

4. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.

5. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.

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