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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?
(a) Our fear of authority.
(b) The inadequate feelings of childhood.
(c) Our fear of abandoment.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

2. The first sentence of Chapter 1 states that, "Life begins with _______."
(a) Loss.
(b) Love.
(c) Birth.
(d) Crying.

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

4. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.
(b) We scream, or cry, or get angry.
(c) We grow amazingly strong wings.
(d) We crash to the ground.

5. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) 20 years old.
(c) 40 years old.
(d) 5 years old.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?

4. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.

5. Why does Viorst think some people fear success?

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