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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is composed of our noblest goals?
(a) Our superego.
(b) Our ego ideal.
(c) Our id.
(d) Our ego.

2. 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) 300.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 50.
(d) 982.

3. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A set of artist's paints.
(b) A pair of roller skates.
(c) A dollhouse.
(d) A bike.

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) Alfred Adler.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Lev Vygotsky.

5. De-identification can help siblings feel superior in different ways, but it can also lead to what negative result?
(a) It can impose limitations on our talents and interests.
(b) It can lead to competition in those different areas.
(c) It can result in negative personality traits such as pride, arrogance, or narcissism.
(d) It can leave one child overshadowed by the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?

2. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."

3. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?

4. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."

5. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?

(see the answer key)

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