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

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 abandoment.
(b) The inadequate feelings of childhood.
(c) Our fear of authority.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

2. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Revisiting the past.
(b) Familiarity complex.
(c) Repetition compulsion.
(d) Bad habits.

3. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."
(a) Primarily sexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Bisexual.
(d) Asexual.

4. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?
(a) Lev Vygotsky.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Alfred Adler.
(d) Erik Erikson.

5. When we allow some person or group to stand in place of our own conscience, this leads to what?
(a) Dependent guilt.
(b) Unconscious guilt.
(c) Indiscriminate guilt.
(d) Deficient guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?

2. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?

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

4. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

5. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

(see the answer key)

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