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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?
(a) The Men's Club.
(b) Confederacy of Dunces.
(c) The Moviegoer.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

3. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 50.
(c) 300.
(d) 982.

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

5. Sigmund Freud once said, "When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ______________?"
(a) Smart or stupid.
(b) Crazy or sane.
(c) Old or young.
(d) Male or female.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?

2. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?

3. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?

4. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?

5. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?

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