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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Skinner and Sullivan.
(b) Piaget and Spock.
(c) Jung and Adler.
(d) Freud and Erikson.

2. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?
(a) Families do not discuss it until the children are grown.
(b) Families do not discuss it at all.
(c) Families discuss it frequently.
(d) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.

3. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.
(a) Worse when we are sick or injured.
(b) Satisfied upon entry into adulthood.
(c) Never relinquished.
(d) Only quenched when we find another meaningful relationship.

4. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More fears.
(b) More dreams.
(c) More people.
(d) More sex.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Potter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

3. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?

4. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.

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

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