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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pride.
(d) Deceit.

2. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.
(a) Warmer.
(b) Frantic.
(c) Fonder.
(d) Colder.

3. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(b) It is formed in our mind.
(c) It comes from the messages around us.
(d) It comes from our DNA.

4. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?
(a) The Electra complex.
(b) The Oracle complex.
(c) The Odysseus complex.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?

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

3. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

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

5. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?

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