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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(b) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(c) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(d) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.

2. According to the author, what do babies need?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Fathers.
(d) A consistent caregiver.

3. 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 do not discuss it at all.
(d) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.

4. Viorst feels that in adulthood we may seek out the wanted parent in an effort to do what?
(a) Put an end to the inappropriate feelings once and for all.
(b) Win the battle over the other parent.
(c) Work through the feelings of childhood.
(d) Make the other parent jealous.

5. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Isolated, hopeless, angry.
(b) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(c) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(d) Jewish, urchin, institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?

2. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?

3. When does it become clear to the child that his needs are different than his mother's?

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

5. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

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